Room 10 | China 3000 BC-AD 800 gallery
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Ritual wine vessel, or jue, with thunder-scroll pattern
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Details
- Associated place
- Material and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 18 x 9.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
- Technique index
- Object type index
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religious/ritual equipment › offering equipment › libation equipment › libation-vessel › libation-cup › jue,religious/ritual equipment › religious/ritual vessel › offering-vessel › libation-vessel › libation-cup › jue,container › vessel › cup › libation-cup › jue,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.3515
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Further reading
Loveday, Helen, Chinese Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Handbook to the Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1990), pp. 13, 19, & 22, illus. p. 21 pl. 6 & cover
Tregear, Mary, Chinese Art, World of Art Library (London: Thames and Hudson, 1980), fig. 38, p. 53
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jue
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jue
Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel.
Location
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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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Ground floor | Room 10 | China to 800
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