IAH quiz one photos

Bowl with Human face and fish motif

• Neolithic: yangshao culture

• banpo type ceramic pottery: handmade, coil built, and best ones red pots with black paint for decoration

• bowl (vessel)

• painted earthenware

Urn, funerary

• Neolithic: Majiyao culture, offshoot of yangshao so technically yangshao

• “Gansu painted pottery culture”/banshan type: colorful ceramics with geometric patterns, serated edges, and checkerboard patterns

• urn, ritual vessel, ceramic

• painted earthenware

Goblet in eggshell form

• Neolithic, Longshan culture in shandong: copper objects found, use of potters wheel, writing and walled towns appeared

• “black pottery culture”, black eggshell pottery

• goblet, ritual vessel, ceramic

• black earthenware

Cong

• Neolithic, Liangzhu culture: southeast china around Tai lake, division of class/appearance of kings, state and city, large elevated burial mounds for nobles, lasting culture influence (astronomy, politics, art)

• most famous for jade objects

• cong: harder to make than bi, larger, square/rectangle shaped jade. top and bottom have bi disks and in between is square

• cosmological model: circle = heaven, square = earth

• show sun god appearance and positions

• decorative and utilitarian art, sculpture, objects

• now in Zhejiang archaelogy institute

Bi

• Neolithic, Liangzhu culture: southeast china around Tai lake, division of class/appearance of kings, state and city, large elevated burial mounds for nobles, lasting culture influence (astronomy, politics, art)

• most famous for jade objects

• bi: looks like disk of jade, normally with a bird on the edge (celestial bird). Also stars on edge

• now in new york metropolitan museum of art

Yue (ritual axe)

• Neolithic, Liangzhu culture

• in tomb. has sun god on it, so gives owner power.

• understanding of astronomy and religion later gave political power and military (axe symbol)

• ritual axe, ceremonial object, jade

• now in Zhejiang archaelogy institute

Bone oracle, turtle plastron

• Shang dynasty: people famous for writing and bronze, second earth dynasty

• oracle bone: first identified as shang writing in 1899. mature writing system but not the earliest in China. more than 4,500 characters used, but only 1,500 deciphered

• ? crack: making on xinyou day by bin

• regalia, sculpture, caligraphy, shell, divination object

Fang Ding

• Shang dynasty

• made from bronze: copper, tin, and lead

• ritual vessel, bronze, metalwork

• now in Henan Provincial Museum

• ? made by king Wending for his mother whose temple name was Muwu

Ding

• Shang dynasty

• tripod for ritual use, not daily cooking

• made by piece mold

• has taotie on bronze: most likely dragon, shang in north represent dragon in frontal manner which is more engaging

• decorative, utilitarian art, metalwork, bronze

• now in D.C Freer gallery of art

Jue

• Shang dynasty

• 3 legs with mouth to drink from

• bronze

• now in D.C Freer Gallery of art

Gu

• Shang dynasty

• ritual vessel, bronze, metalwork

• now in D.C Freer Gallery of art

Guang

• Shang dynasty

• wine/pouring vessel

• ritual vessel, metalwork, bronze

• now in D.C Freer Gallery of art

Zun

• Shang dynasty

• drinking/wine vessel

• ritual vessel, metalwork, bronze

• now in D.C Freer Gallery of art

Ceremonial axe from Henan province

• Shang dynasty

• front facing sun god

• decorative and utilitarian art, metalwork, bronze, ceremonial object

Fang Zun

• Shang dynasty/beyond Shang

• in four fam shape

• found by farmers in Hunan

• decorative and utilitarian art, metalwork, bronze, ritual vessel

• Now in Beijing Museum of Chinese History

Human-like heads

• Shang dynasty/beyond Shang

• installation view

• burials and grave goods, metalwork, bronze, sculpture

• Found in Sanxingdui China

• now in China Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics Bureau

Standing human figure from pit 2; front from right

• Shang dynasty/beyond Shang

• holds tusk

• burials and grave goods, metalwork, bronze, sculpture

• Found in Sanxingdui China

• now in China Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics Bureau

Human-like head from pit 2; Sangxingdui China

• Shang dynasty/beyond Shang

• gold mask on bronze head

• burials and grave goods, metalwork, bronze

• Found in Sanxingdui China

• now in China Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics Bureau

Gui

• Zhou dynasty, western

• tureen, deep bowl with inscription inside vessel for food

• ritual vessel, bronze, metalwork

• now in Cultural office China