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Ritual food vessel, or ding, with dragon and taotie masks
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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13th - 12th century BC (1300 - 1101 BC)
Shang Dynasty, Anyang Period (c. 1200 - c. 1050 BC)
- Material and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
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height and width with handles 21.6 x 17.4 x 17.2 cm (height x width x depth)
height and width without handles 17.9 x 17.2 x 17.2 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
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container › vessel › pot › burial-pot,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.831
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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, 25, & 28, illus. p. 20 pl. 5
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), pls 93, 93.1, 93.2, & 93.7, & 94
Glossary (2)
ding, taotie
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ding
A Chinese bronze tripod ritual cooking vessel. Also a type of white porcelain from Northern China.
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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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- currently in research collection
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