Ritual Wine Flask

anonymous, -0350 - -0250

The unusual shape of this flask was introduced from the north of what is now China around 400 BCE. Typical is the oblong body with flat sides, the small waisted neck, and the rectangular base. The rings used to hold the vessel are mounted in the mouth of an unidentifiable, imaginary creature.

  • Artwork typefles, ritual object, bianhu
  • Object numberAK-MAK-497
  • Dimensionsheight 29.3 cm x width 26.2 cm x depth 10 cm

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Ritual Wine Flask
    • Ritual flask

  • Object type

  • Object number

    AK-MAK-497

  • Description

    Platte fles (platte zijde verdeeld in rechthoeken) en deksel, waarschijnlijk niet bij elkaar behorend.

Creation

  • Creation

    anonymous, China

  • Dating

    -0350 - -0250

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    height 29.3 cm x width 26.2 cm x depth 10 cm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Gerrit-Jan Verburgt bequest, 1969)

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection M. Bing, Paris, before 1925;{Note RMA.)…; collection of Gerrit-Jan Verburgt (1871-1926), The Hague, 1926;{Note RMA.} his widow Carolina Geertruida Verburgt-Kramers (1876-1968), The Hague, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1969;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Documentation

    • Sekai Bijutsu, Tokyo, Kadogawa Shoten vol. 12, pl. 18.
    • Sengoku Shiki doki no kenkyi (Etudes des bronzes des Royaumes combattants, Kyoto 1936, pl. LXXXI.
    • Cat. Legaat Verburgt, nr. 6. (Bulletin van de Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst. Derde Serie 19-20 (1970))
    • H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic art in private collections in Holland and Belgium, Amsterdam 1948, cat.nr. 27, pl. 24.
    • Shina-Kodo-Seikwa or selected relics of ancient Chinese bronzes from collections in Europe and America, Osaka 1933-1935, dl. III, nr. 187.
    • L'amour de l'art, (1925) 11, p. 421.
    • Charles Fabens Kelly, Ch'ei n Méng-chia, Chinese bronzes from the Buckinham collection, Chicago 1946, pl. LVIII.

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  • Ritual Wine Flask
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