COLLECTION NAME:
National Palace English
Record
Work ID:
M01B00044
Title:
Bronze Zhi vessel with Fu Kui inscription
Creation Date:
Late Shang Dynasty
Start Year Date:
B.C.1321
End Year Date:
B.C.1045
Dynasty:
05 Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 ~1100 B.C.)
Creation Place:
China
Measurements:
Height: 15.5 cm; Weight: 644g
Material:
Bronze
Form:
Zhi (wine vessel)
Type:
Bronzes
Repository:
The National Palace Museum, Taipei
Description:
Viewed from a frontal vantage pint, the oval zhi has two cusps on either side. Attached to the lid is a ring lug. The ring foot is tall and slopes outward toward the bottom. The vessel is decorated with ordered and regular T-shaped hooks and cloud patterns throughout. In between the lid and the vessel are broad bands of cloud patterns with a thin band of small circles above it. Small circles are frequently seen on early Shang bronzes, therefore this vessel can be dated to the early period of late Shang. Identical inscriptions of three characters in two columns are found inside the belly and the lid. They indicate a clan sign and the name of the vessel owner's father. The owner of this vessel made this zhi , a ceremonial wine vessel, to hold wine for ancestral worship in the event of his father's death.
ImageV ID:
M01B00044AS001
Rights:
Lee & Lee Communications