id: 138689 accession number: 1963.103 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.103 updated: 2025-08-29 11:35:51.683000 Square Wine Container (Fangyou), c. 1250–1046 BCE. China, Henan province, probably Anyang, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE), Anyang phase (c. 1250–1046 BCE). Bronze; overall: 26.7 x 13.4 cm (10 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1963.103 title: Square Wine Container (Fangyou) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1250–1046 BCE creation date earliest: -1260 creation date latest: -1036 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Henan province, probably Anyang, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE), Anyang phase (c. 1250–1046 BCE) technique: bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Shang Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 26.7 x 13.4 cm (10 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). title: Science within Art opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Science within Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (S. Kriger, Inc., Washington, DC, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1963– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Huang Jun [Huang Chün] 黄濬. Ye zhong pian yu [鄴中片羽 = An-yang antiquities]. Beiping: Zunguzhai 尊古齋, 1935. page number: Reproduced: Pt. 2, I, pl. 17B url: Rong, Geng [Jung Keng] 容庚. Shang Zhou yi qi tong kao [商周彝器通考 = The Bronzes of Shang and Chou]. Beiping: Harvard-Yenching Institute 哈佛燕京學社, 1941. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: I. p. 416; II, fig. 627 url: Mizuno, Seiichi 水野清一. In Shū seidōki to tama 殷周青銅器と玉. Tōkyō: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha 日本経済新聞社, 1959. page number: Reproduced: fig. 46 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. “The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art” (1994). page number: Mentioned: p. 292, no. 68; Reproduced: p. 283, no. 68 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974 “Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1963.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 18 (1964): 69–91. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 71 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067074 Ho, Wai-Kam. “Shang and Chou Bronzes.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 7 (September 1964): 175–187. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 175, fig. 1 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152007 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. 244 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n268 Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pl. 49 url: 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. 244 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n268 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. 324 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n344 Watson, William. L’art de L’ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 204, p. 383 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. 5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20 Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 24–25 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 76, p. 72 and 118 url: Chung, Anita. "A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee." Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009). page number: Reproduced: p. 30, fig. 3 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 24-25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.103/1963.103_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.103/1963.103_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.103/1963.103_full.tif