Dark green bronze wine vessel with a loop handle, a flared rim and three pointed legs, on a gray background.

Wine Vessel (Jia)

A bronze ritual wine vessel with a flared rim, a single loop handle on one side, and three tapering legs that splay outward. The green-black surface is pitted and mottled with corrosion, and faint incised linear motifs ring the upper body.

Look closer: Faint incised zigzag or band motifs on the upper body, and a small projecting knob or post at the rim's far edge.

Artist: Unknown
Date: c. 1700–1500 BCE
Medium: bronze
Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Size: 3151 × 3400 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund

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