Goblet (jia)

Late Shang dynasty, 13th century–1046 B.C.

China

Monumental scale and the precise casting of animal imagery distinguish this vessel as a commission of late Shang royalty. Two tiers of monster masks encircle the flared bowl. Elongated version of these masks, which may also be interpreted as paired serpents, descend the sharply tapered legs. A bovine head with sculpted horns crowns the strap handle. Pieces of the clay core, visible through holes in the legs, remain from the piece-mold casting process.

Status: On View, Gallery 131
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Goblet (jia)
Place: China (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1200 BCE–1046 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 51.5 × 23.5 cm (20 1/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1926.1599
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Berthold Laufer, Archaic Chinese Bronzes of the Shang, Chou, and Han Periods in the Collections of Mr. Parish-Watson (New York, 1922), 6, cat. 2, pl. 2 (ill.).
C. F. Kelley and D. K. Wilson, “Bronzes Recently Acquired for the Buckingham Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21 (Nov.–Dec. 1927): 98–99, 114–116, fig. 3.
Sueji Umehara, Shina kodō seikwa, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pl. 68.
Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago / Lakeside Press, 1946), 26, 148, pl. 8.
Matsumaru Michio, In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 64, 599.
Minao Hayashi, In Shu jidai seidōki no kenkyū (In Shu jidai seidōki sōran ichi) [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes], vol. 1, pt. 2 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1984), 196, pl. 60.
Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 16–17 (ill.).
Elinor Pearlstein, “Early Chicago Chronicles of Chinese Art,” in Jason Steuber with Guolong Lai, eds., Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China: Histories & Challenges (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), 14–15, pl. 1.10a–b.

Parish-Watson and Company, New York, 1922; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago[Kate served as executor of her sister Lucy Maud Buckingham’s estate and continued expanding Lucy’s collection following her death in 1920] Dec. 15, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 15, 1926.

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