Ritual wine cup (jue)

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 210

The inscription under its lip states that the cup was cast in 1294 for the Confucian school of Wu County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). It was part of a larger project that was completed between 1293 and 1295 and supervised by two scholar-officials, Li Gan and Fang Wenbao. The Cernuschi cup nearby was from the same group but cast one year earlier. The Wu County vessels are the earliest ritual bronzes that bear dated inscriptions from the Yuan dynasty.

Inscription
至元甲午歲李淦方文豹鑄吳學祭器
In the jiawu year of the Zhiyuan reign, Li Gan and Fang Wenbao cast this ritual vessel for the Confucian school of Wu Prefecture.

Ritual wine cup (jue), Copper alloy, China

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Ritual wine cup (jue), Copper alloy, China
Ritual wine cup (jue), Copper alloy, China
Ritual wine cup (jue), Copper alloy, China
Ritual wine cup (jue), Copper alloy, China

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