wine vessel (jue)
Wine Vessel (Jue)
1465
1465
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Wine vessel (jue) with three small tapering legs, cylindrical body spreading to a large mouth and deep lip, and two vestigial posts at the top. Decorated around the body, underneath the inscriptions, with a band of tight spirals (leiwen) with two pairs of confronting birds. The workmanship is rough and the soldered joints clearly visible. Four inscriptions appear on the vessel, informing us that it was made in 1465 for a Confucian temple in Guangdong, comissioned by a magistrate, and a high official.
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| Materials and techniques | metal, bronze, i.e. copper-tin alloy, with large amount of lead, cast-in, engraved, moulded. |
| Brief description | Wine vessel, metal, dated 1465 |
| Physical description | Wine vessel (jue) with three small tapering legs, cylindrical body spreading to a large mouth an deep lip, and two vestigial posts at the top. Four inscriptions appear on the sides, and bottom of the vessel. Decorated around the body, underneath the inscriptions, with a band of tight spirals (leiwen) with two pairs of confronting birds. The workmanship is rough and the soldered joints clearly visible. |
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| Content description | The joint dedication of a sacrifical vessel for a county Confucian temple (in Guangdong) by the district magistrate, Wu Zhong, and a higher official from the provincial administration, Liu Wei, is quite plausible. The dates of the two men in official records match the date of 1465 on the object. |
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| Credit line | Bought from Christie's South Kensington in 1983 |
| Object history | According to the official titles of Wu Zhong and Liu Wei, this wine vessel was commissioned for and subsequently displayed at a Confucian temple in Guangdong. It was made in the seventh month of the first year of the reign of the emperor Chenghua, or 1465. |
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| Summary | Wine vessel (jue) with three small tapering legs, cylindrical body spreading to a large mouth and deep lip, and two vestigial posts at the top. Decorated around the body, underneath the inscriptions, with a band of tight spirals (leiwen) with two pairs of confronting birds. The workmanship is rough and the soldered joints clearly visible. Four inscriptions appear on the vessel, informing us that it was made in 1465 for a Confucian temple in Guangdong, comissioned by a magistrate, and a high official. |
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| Accession number | FE.43-1983 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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