Ritual Wine Vessel (Jue)

12th century BCE

19.1 cm 20.5 cm 10.8 cm

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For rituals, wine was served warm. The two spouts on this vessel were used to pour the warm wine into cups. Some of the earliest belief systems in China included communicating with spirits and worshipping ancestors. Later, the philosophies and religions of Confucianism, Daoism...

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Yamanaka Sale, Collection of a Chinese nobleman from Tientsin, American Art Association, January 29,1914, no. 120; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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