id:			117465
accession number:	1938.13
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.13
updated:		2025-02-09 00:22:47.813000

Wine Vessel (Fu Wu Zun), c. 1000–900 BCE. China, Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–771 BCE). Bronze; diameter: 23.1 cm (9 1/8 in.); overall: 25.2 cm (9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.13

title:				Wine Vessel (Fu Wu Zun)
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creation date:			c. 1000–900 BCE
creation date earliest:		-1010
creation date latest:		-890
current location:		241A Arts of Ancient China
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	China, Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–771 BCE)
technique:	bronze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Zhou Dynasty
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 23.1 cm (9 1/8 in.); Overall: 25.2 cm (9 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) through the Tʻang dynasty (A.D. 618-906)</em>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Ancient Chinese Bronzes</em>. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (October 10-December 15, 1968).', 'opening_date': '1968-10-10T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Tonying and Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1938
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the Tʻang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); an Exhibition Lent by American Collectors and Museums and Shown in Gallery D6 from October 19 through November 27</em>, <em>1938</em>. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 98, p. 9
	url:		https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/147035

	Hollis, Howard. "A Chinese Sacrificial Wine Vessel." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>25, no. 10 (December 1938): 176–177.
	page number: 	Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 176
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137968

	“Accessions.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 124–126.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 127
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	Francis, Henry. "Loans to Important Exhibitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 123; Reproduced: p. 127
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138029

	Loehr, Max. <em>Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China</em>. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1968.
	page number: 	cat. no. 47, p. 110.
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	Chen, Mengjia 陳夢家 and Matsumaru Michio 松丸道雄改1977. <em>In Shū seidōki bunrui zuroku</em> [殷周青銅器分類図錄 = A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections]. Tōkyō: Kyuko Shoin 汲古書院, 1977.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 697.
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	Little, Stephen. “Chinese Calligraphy.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 9 (November 1987): 372–403.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 372–373
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160005

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