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Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900, to the Art Museum\", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 33, no. 2 (1974): p. 24-30., p. 29","date":1974,"id":6012,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774533"},{"boilertext":"\"Recent acquisitions\", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 14, no. 1 (1955): p. 17-19.","citation":"\"Recent acquisitions\", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 14, no. 1 (1955): p. 17-19., p. 18","date":1955,"id":3782,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774235"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12500,"period":"Shang dynasty","alphasort":"Shang Dynasty","begindate":-1299,"enddate":-1000,"displayperiod":"Shang dynasty, 1299 - 1000 BCE","displaydate":"1299 - 1000 BCE"},{"id":13959,"period":"Anyang period","alphasort":"Anyang period","begindate":-1200,"enddate":-1000,"displayperiod":"Anyang period, 13th–11th century BCE","displaydate":"13th–11th century BCE"}],"department":"Asian Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"2000-1000 B.C.","dateend":-1001,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Gu 觚 (wine vessel)","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"y1954-21","inscribed":"Cast inscription on one foot","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"An Yang, China; [Mathias Komor (1909–1984), New York]; J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900 (1895–1968), by 1954; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1954.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"The earliest surviving examples of Chinese writing are the inscriptions found on oracle bones and bronze ritual vessels unearthed at the site of the Shang-dynasty capital at Anyang, Henan  province (occupied ca. 1250–ca. 1050 BCE). In the inscription cast inside the foot of this tall wine cup, a central column of two undeciphered characters is flanked by mirrored versions of a character whose descendant in the modern Chinese script  is <i>ce </i>冊. The ancient character, which may be translated as “records” or “record-keeper,” depicts a scroll of wood or bamboo slips tied  together with string—the surface used for everyday writing in Bronze Age China. The elegantly drawn characters in this bronze inscription appear to be part of an elaborate insignia meant to identify the patron who had the vessel cast, perhaps a scribal official.\n","remarks":"ASIA_Cl-15-T6-2_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":-1100,"sortnumber":"1954   21y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:05:07.100974","objectid":24758,"dimensions":"h. 30.6 cm., diam. rim 16.6 cm. (12 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)","on_view":true}