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Title: Gu (libation goblet, one of a pair with 1948/1.117)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Wine drinking goblet or beaker with a wide, trumpet-shaped mouth, narrow, banded waist, and flaring foot. The slender silhouette of the vessel suggests a date towards the end of the Late Shang period. The body is decorated with Tao-tie mask design, divided by the elaborate raised flanges. An inscription is found inside the flaring foot, presumably the name of the person that the vessel is dedicated.
Century: 12th-11th century BCE
Object Creation Date: circa 1300 BCE - circa 1100 BCE
Accession Number: 1948/1.118
Medium and Support: cast bronze with heavy malachite patina
relevance: rank 10.40834
Creation Place 4: Anyang

Title: Dagger-axe (Ko)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: ceremonial jade ge dagger-axe, pointed blade on one end and squared tang for hafting on the other. It was broken and mented in the middle. Traces of cinnabar, red mercury sulfide, remain on the jade surface, indicating it probably came from a Shang elite burial in China. The jade material was probably fire treated to create the bony look.
Century: 16th-12th century BCE
Object Creation Date: 1600 BCE - 1100 BCE
Accession Number: 1960/2.119
Medium and Support: heat-treated jade
relevance: rank 10.40834
Creation Place 4: Anyang

Title: Fang ding (“square tripod” cooking vessel) with taotie mask and gui dragon design
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: square ding (ting) tripod with four legs, the body as well as the upper portion of the four legs is decorated with "t'ao-t'ieh" zoomorphic design. One of the leg was recast after the rest of the body has been completed, thus had a less refined craftmanship and joint line at its base. The double loop handles are also decorated with zoomorphic design. A group of three inscription is cast on the upper portion of the interior wall, which reads as Fu (father) Ji (day name), followed by an symbolic representation of a chariot, possibly a clan emblem. The interior is plain, the animal bone remains attached to the bottom and variations in patina patterns with a line running through the middle indicates that the vessel was once filled with cooked meat offerings, presumably in a Shang elite burial in late second millennium B.C.E.
Century: 12th century BCE
Object Creation Date: 12th century BCE
Accession Number: 1961/2.82
Medium and Support: cast bronze with malachite patina
relevance: rank 10.40834
Creation Place 4: Anyang

Title: Gu (libation goblet, one of a pair with 1948/1.118)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Wine drinking goblet or beaker with a wide, trumpet-shaped mouth, narrow, banded waist, and flaring foot. The slender silhouette of the vessel suggests a date towards the end of the Late Shang period. The body is decorated with Tao-tie mask design, divided by the elaborate raised flanges. An inscription is found inside the flaring foot, presumably the name of the person that the vessel is dedicated or the clan emblem.
Century: 12th-11th century BCE
Object Creation Date: circa 1300 BCE - circa 1100 BCE
Accession Number: 1948/1.117
Medium and Support: cast bronze with heavy malachite patina
relevance: rank 10.40834
Creation Place 4: Anyang

Title: Dragon pendant
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Highly stylized depiction of dragon design with tiger head, lower right portion broken off
Century: 13th-11th century BCE
Object Creation Date: circa 1300 BCE - circa 1100 BCE
Accession Number: 1960/2.113
Medium and Support: dark brown hard stone with white calcification
relevance: rank 10.40834
Creation Place 4: Anyang

Title: Ge (halberd)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: the ceremonial degger-axe replicate in jade a common bronze weapon of the Shang dynasty called ge. It has a wide blade with a sharp point at one end and a plain, rectangular tang on the other.
Object Creation Date: 1600 BCE - 1100 BCE
Accession Number: 1960/2.110A&B
Medium and Support: green nephrite with mottling
relevance: rank 10.40834
Creation Place 4: Anyang

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