Ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessel Zhi - 1150 BC
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Ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessel Zhi - 1150 BC:
$16000.00
An ancient Chinese Bronze wine vessel or zhi with inscription, dating to China\'s Late Shang Dynasty, circa 12th–11th Century BC.
In Bronze Age China, ancestral worship was the dominant form of religion. Bronze vessels such as this Zhi, filled with food and wine, were set out in a form of communal banquet for the ancestors to come and share with their living descendants. Remarkably, the very name of the individual to whom this vessel was dedicated has been cast on the inner foot. Hidden for millennia, it emerges from the mists of the past as ‘Zu Ding’ (ancestor Ding).
For the people who made it, this bronze vessel was religious, mysterious and carried significance in their everyday lives. Today, it is not only a beautiful object, proud and elegant in its form, it still carries that same sense of otherworldly mystique. Zu Ding ‘Ancestor Ding’
Height: 6 inchesProvenance: From the collection of New Yorker Luz Papasian (1915–2013).ArtAncient, 2014. Glimpses. Object 12. Approximate region of origin:
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Ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessel Zhi - 1150 BC:
$16000.00