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Food Container (Gui)

龍耳簋

600–500 BCE
(770–476 BCE)
bronze
Overall: 34.3 x 44.5 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1974.73
Location: 241A Arts of Ancient China
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Description

Openwork and sculptural designs elaborately transform the silhouette of this gui, 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.
Food Container (Gui)

Food Container (Gui)

600–500 BCE

China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE)

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