id: 136506 accession number: 1960.78 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.78 updated: 2023-03-24 11:13:13.233000 Wine Cups (Jue), c. 1200 BC. China, late Shang dynasty (c.1600-c.1046 BC), Anyang phase (c.1250-1046 BC). Bronze; overall: 20.3 x 19.7 cm (8 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund and Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1960.78 title: Wine Cups (Jue) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1200 BC creation date earliest: -1210 creation date latest: -1190 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund and Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: China, late Shang dynasty (c.1600-c.1046 BC), Anyang phase (c.1250-1046 BC) technique: bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Shang Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 20.3 x 19.7 cm (8 x 7 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia opening date: 1990-07-24T04:00:00 Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990). title: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 1960 Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review for 1960, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961, no. 26
1988 Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures for the Yellow Springs, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, February 2-June 6, 1988 (no cat.)
1990 Cleveland Museum of Art, Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, July 24-December 30, 1990, no. 2
1994 Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Autumn: "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions," cat., Bull., vol. 81, no. 8 (Oct. 1994) cat. no. 7, p. 346 --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Wine and food played a major role in ritual offerings to the ancestral spirits and the Supreme Ancestor (Shangdi) performed by the Shang rulers in the state cult of ancestor worship. A variety of wine vessels—each type given a specific name—was cast to bear witness to the power and artistic vitality of this remote civilization.

This example of a jue wine cup is for libations. Other major types of wine vessels include jia (wine warming vessel), fangyou (square wine container), and gu (beaker with a trumpeted mouth for pouring). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Four Ritual Vases,” March 27, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0916 Wilson, J. Keith. "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323. page number: Reproduced: p. 288, 312 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.78/1960.78_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.78/1960.78_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.78/1960.78_full.tif