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:				
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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:			

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culture:	China, early Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-771 BC)
technique:	bronze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Zhou Dynasty
type:		Metalwork
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Cleveland Bestiary
	opening date:   1981-10-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14-December 16, 1981).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 325
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n345

	Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 45-46, p. 62; Reproduced: p. 46
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n22

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