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Food Container (Gui)
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About this work
Openwork and sculptural designs elaborately transform the silhouette of this gui , a ritual food vessel with a square pedestal. The design exudes motion, exuberance, and baroque characters to a stately vessel form. Lotus-petal openwork encircles the cover, reinforcing the linear rhythms of the undulating wave patterns on the body. Two lively dragons, with eyes and mouth wide open and tongue straight out, are accompanied by two felines to form the arched handles.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFood Container (Gui) (龍耳簋), 600–500 BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE). Bronze; overall: 34.3 x 44.5 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1974.73
