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Source Description
Openwork and sculptural designs elaborately transform the silhouette of this <em>gui</em>, a ritual food vessel with a square pedestal. The design exudes motion, exuberance, and baroque characters to a stately vessel form. Lotus-petal openwork encircles the cover, reinforcing the linear rhythms of the undulating wave patterns on the body. Two lively dragons, with eyes and mouth wide open and tongue straight out, are accompanied by two felines to form the arched handles.
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Document identity
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147977
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Food Container (Gui)
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147977
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object
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Food Container (Gui)
description
Openwork and sculptural designs elaborately transform the silhouette of this <em>gui</em>, a ritual food vessel with a square pedestal. The design exudes motion, exuberance, and baroque characters to a stately vessel form. Lotus-petal openwork encircles the cover, reinforcing the linear rhythms of the undulating wave patterns on the body. Two lively dragons, with eyes and mouth wide open and tongue straight out, are accompanied by two felines to form the arched handles.
date
600–500 BCE
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60756390
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Metalwork
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 34.3 x 44.5 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
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China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE)
accession
1974.73
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bronze
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Food Container (Gui) (龍耳簋), 600–500 BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE). Bronze; overall: 34.3 x 44.5 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1974.73
titleInOriginalLanguage
龍耳簋
collection
China - Zhou Dynasty
didYouKnow
This ritual food vessel likely held grain like rice, millet, or corn in rites for worshipping the ancestors.
citations
citation
Christie, Manson & Woods. <em>The Frederick M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art</em>. 25 June 1974 sale.
page_number
Lot 219
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (1975): 62–103.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 103, cat. no. 176; Reproduced: p. 104 (back cover)
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 325
citation
Wang, Haiwen 王海文. "The Dragon-eared [-handled] Kuei 龍耳簋." <em>Gugong bowuyuan yuankan</em> [故宮博物院院刊 = Palace Museum Journal], 1979, no. 4.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 25 and 32
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 7
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 07:35:59.585000
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147977
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Chinese Art
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China - Zhou Dynasty
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bronze
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