Ritual wine container (zun) with masks (taotie), dragons, and birds

Object Details

• Previous custodian or owner

  C.T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

• Provenance

  From at least 1949 to 1951

  C. T. Loo & Company, New York, from at least May 11, 1949 [1]

  From 1951

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on November 28, 1951 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See C. T. Loo's Approval Memorandum, with an annotation that the listed objects were left by Loo at the Freer Gallery on May 11, 1949, copy in object file.

  [2] According to information on Archival Vault Card, Registrar Office, copy in object file.

• Origin

  Anyang, probably Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Sackler Gallery 24b: Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  BCE 1000s

• Name

  C.T. Loo & Company

• Place

  China, Henan province, Anyang

• Topic

  Wine and wine making, Art, Chinese Art, Anyang period, Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300 - 1050 BCE)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes