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Gu (vessel)

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A gu is type of ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties (i.e. 1600–256 BC). [1]

37 relations: Anyang, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Bronze Age, Chenggu County, China, Chinese ritual bronzes, Christie's, Dawenkou culture, Erligang culture, Erlitou culture, Fu Hao, Henan, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jessica Rawson, Johannes Vermeer, King Mu of Zhou, Liangzhu culture, Libation, List of Neolithic cultures of China, Max Loehr, National Palace Museum, Neolithic, Rembrandt, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shang dynasty, Shanghai Museum, Shi Qiang pan, Tai'an, Taotie, Western Zhou, Xia dynasty, Yinxu, Zhejiang, Zhou dynasty, Zu Geng of Shang, Zu Jia.

Anyang

Anyang is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, China.

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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art form the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art in the United States.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Chenggu County

Chenggu County is a county of Hanzhong, in the southwest of Shaanxi province, China.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese ritual bronzes

Sets of ritual bronzes (in chinese: 中国青铜器) are the most impressive surviving objects from the Chinese Bronze Age.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house.

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Dawenkou culture

The Dawenkou culture is a name given by archaeologists to a group of Neolithic communities who lived primarily in Shandong, but also appeared in Anhui, Henan and Jiangsu, China.

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Erligang culture

The Erligang culture is a Bronze Age urban civilization and archaeological culture in China that existed from approximately 1510 to 1460 BC.

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Erlitou culture

The Erlitou culture was an early Bronze Age urban society and archaeological culture that existed in the Yellow River valley from approximately 1900 to 1500 BC.

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Fu Hao

Fu Hao (died c. 1200 BC) or Lady Hao, posthumously Mu Xin (母辛), was one of the many wives of King Wu Ding of the Shang dynasty and, unusually for that time, also served as a military general and high priestess.

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Henan

Henan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (called Fenway Court during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime) is a museum in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts near the Back Bay Fens.

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Jessica Rawson

Jessica Rawson, DBE, FBA (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and academic administrator, specializing in Chinese art.

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Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

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King Mu of Zhou

King Mu of Zhou was the fifth king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

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Liangzhu culture

The Liangzhu culture (3400–2250 BC) was the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China.

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Libation

A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid (ex: milk or other fluids such as corn flour mixed with water), or grains such as rice, as an offering to a god or spirit, or in memory of those who have "passed on".

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List of Neolithic cultures of China

This is a list of Neolithic cultures of China that have been unearthed by archaeologists.

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Max Loehr

Max Loehr (4 December 1903 - 16 September 1988) was an art historian and professor of Chinese art at Harvard University from 1960 to 1974.

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National Palace Museum

The National Palace Museum, located in Taipei and Taibao, Taiwan, has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest of its type in the world.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty, according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.

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Shanghai Museum

The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China.

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Shi Qiang pan

The Shi Qiang pan (史墻盤; "Basin of Scribe Qiang"), also called the Qiang pan (墻盤), is an ancient Chinese bronze pan vessel (basin).

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Tai'an

Tai'an is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong province of the People's Republic of China.

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Taotie

The taotie is a motif commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasty.

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Western Zhou

The Western Zhou (西周; c. 1046 – 771 BC) was the first half of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.

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Xia dynasty

The Xia dynasty is the legendary, possibly apocryphal first dynasty in traditional Chinese history.

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Yinxu

Yinxu (modern) is the site of one of the ancient and major historical capitals of China.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zhou dynasty

The Zhou dynasty or the Zhou Kingdom was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty.

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Zu Geng of Shang

Zu Geng (祖庚) was king of the Shang dynasty of China.

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Zu Jia

Zu Jia (祖甲) was king of the Shang dynasty of China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_(vessel)

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