Jue wine vessel dedicated to Fu Yi, late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century BCE-China Archive

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Category:Bronzes
Function:Ritual vessel, wine vessel
<<<<<<<<Material:Mineral/metal/bronze
Description:
Straight barrel belly, round bottom, The foot is triangular, and the cap of high column is hat shaped. There is a beast’s face on it. The patterns are all over the upper and lower layers of the abdomen, and all over the stream and tail, forming a thin line shallow relief decorative layer with a width of the upper and lower layers. The shape characteristics and decoration layout are close to Xiaotun 82M1 in the third phase of Yin Ruins. There are inscriptions on the inner wall of the vessel, which may be an sacrificial vessel made by the □ people to worship their father and second. There is copper overflow at the joint between the cylinder and the body. The X-ray film shows that the whole device is complete, and no gasket trace is found