Cleveland Museum of Art
Wine vessel (Jue)
- Date
- c. 1200 BCE
- Medium
- bronze
- Culture
- China, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136465
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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 types of wine vessels include jia (wine warming vessel), fangyou (square wine container), and gu (beaker with a trumpeted mouth for pouring).
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- Credit line
- Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund and Edward L. Wittemore Fund
- Provenance
- by 1937–?: L. Wannieck Collection, Paris, France | ?–1960: (Bluett & Sons, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1960–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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