Wine Vessel (Jia)

c. 1250–1046 BCE Overall: 50.8 cm (20 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.54

This large wine vessel (or jia) is among those very rare, monumental pieces uncovered from Anyang, the last royal capital of the Shang dynasty (c.1700–c.1100 BCE). Probably very few monumental bronze vessels were ever made; each of them must have cost a fortune and was used to...

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