Vase you 卣, M.C. 6156, Entre -1300 et -1050

Author(s): anonymous, founder date of production: between -1300 and -1050 type(s) of object(s): china, beliefs - customs - cults - ceremonies, archaeology, metal, metal arts name(s): tableware and kitchen utensils, vase, religious object materials and techniques: bronze, mold casting place(s) of execution/realization: china dimensions - artwork: height: 24. 7cm width: 13cm length: 18. 4cm description: faced dragons, of the kui type, decorate each of the registers of this powerful piece intended to contain fermented drinks. Those of the body, with the curved jaw, the tail curled outwards and the legs equipped with claws, draw a particularly impressive taotie mask with large bulging eyes. Vadime elisseeff gives the list of several bronzes similar to the you from the cernuschi museum. Another example, preserved in the arthur m. Sackler collection, is distinguished only by a few details, including the motifs of the falling lid. Several other very similar vases, cited by r. Bagley and reputed to come from the provinces of anhui or zhejiang, had been garnished with small jade objects during their burial. It is likely, however, that this type of you, punctuated by strongly projecting edges, with a broad profile, an oval section and provided with a transverse handle, which has disappeared on the container in the cernuschi museum, was manufactured in northern china and exported to the south. It seems to appear a century after the choice of the site of anyang as capital. Iconographic description: faced dragons, of the kui type, decorate each of the registers of this powerful piece intended to contain fermented drinks. Those of the body, with the curved jaw, the tail curled outwards and the legs equipped with claws, draw a particularly impressive taotie mask with large bulging eyes. Vadime elisseeff gives the list of several bronzes similar to the you from the cernuschi museum. Another example, preserved in the arthur m. Sackler collection, is distinguished only by a few details, including the motifs of the falling lid. Several other very similar vases, cited by r. Bagley and reputed to come from the provinces of anhui or zhejiang, had been garnished with small jade objects during their burial. It is likely, however, that this type of you, punctuated by strongly projecting edges, with a broad profile, an oval section and provided with a transverse handle, which has disappeared on the container in the cernuschi museum, was manufactured in northern china and exported to the south. It seems to appear a century after the choice of the site of anyang as capital. Themes / subjects / places represented: dragon, dragon, dragon, taotie, leiwen mode of acquisition: purchase at public sale date of acquisition: 02–05–1920 institution: cernuschi museum, museum of asian arts of the city of paris inventory number: m. C. 6156. Date: Entre -1300 et -1050.