Room 10 | China 3000 BC-AD 800 gallery
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Ritual wine vessel, or jiao, with taotie masks and thunder-scroll pattern
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Details
- Associated place
- Material and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 19 x 15.5 x 12 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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container › vessel › wine-vessel,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.840
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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. 19 & 22, illus. p. 17 pl. 3
Bagley, Robert W., Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1 (Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987), fig. 24.2
Glossary
taotie
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taotie
Stylized monster mask decoration with prominent eyes and scrolling horns. The motif has been known since the 1100s. Its significance remains mysterious.
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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