id: 128157 accession number: 1951.151 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.151 updated: 2023-01-10 23:28:21.811000 Wine Vessel (Zun), c. 1000 BC. China, early Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-771 BC). Bronze; overall: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from Howard Hollis and Company 1951.151 title: Wine Vessel (Zun) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1000 BC creation date earliest: -1010 creation date latest: -990 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: Gift from Howard Hollis and Company copyright: --- culture: China, early Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-771 BC) technique: bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Zhou Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-14T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14-December 16, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Although the Zhou defeated the Shang, the performance of religious rites and the casting of ceremonial bronzes continued. Zhou bronze art, nevertheless, reveals the artistic sentiments of a new era. There was as much confidence in the achievements of the living as observance of ritual duties for the dead. For example, this wine vessel combines artistic imagination with a display of strength and force. Bold images of buffalo heads with protruding horns were cast onto the middle section. Together with the four notched flanges extending downward below the flaring mouth, there is an effect of overflowing energy. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 799 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n142 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 245 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n269 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 245 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n269 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 325 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n345 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned: p. 45-46, p. 62; Reproduced: p. 46 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n22 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.151/1951.151_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.151/1951.151_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.151/1951.151_full.tif