page_title: Guang (vessel)
hierarchical_section_title: Guang (vessel)
caption_attribution_description: English: Gong Fu Yi. A bronze animalistic Chinese gong vessel, 13-11 century B.C., late Shang Dynasty, Shanghai Museum. The head has rabbit ears and giraffe horns, and the shine looks like a small dragon in high relief. The back of the cover has the shape of the head of an ox, like the handle that has the same pattern of head of ox. The body has phoenix patterns, and the oval base shows claws of phoenix patterns. Written in chinese&#160;: "Made by Fu Yi". Height: 29.5cm Length: 31.5cm Weight: 4.84kg Français&#160;: Gong Fu Yi. Un Gong chinois en bronze, 13-11 siècle avant JC, dynastie Shang, Musée de Shanghai. La tête présente des oreilles de lapin et des cornes de giraffe, et l'échine ressemble à un petit dragon en haut relief. L'arrière du couvercle présente un motif de tête de buffle, tout comme l'anse. Le corps présente des motifs de phoenix, et la base ovale des motifs de serres de phoenix. Porte la mention&#160;: "Fabriqué par Fu Yi". Hauteur&#160;: 29.5cm Longueur&#160;: 31.5cm Poids&#160;: 4.84kg Deutsch: Chinesischer, tierischer Bronze-Gōng (Weingefäß), Shang-Dynastie. Polski: Wystawa Starożytnych Chińskich Brązów w Muzeum Szanghajskim
context_page_description: A guang or gong is a particular shape used in Chinese art for vessels, originally made as Chinese ritual bronzes in the Shang dynasty, and sometimes later in Chinese porcelain. They are a type of ewer which was used for pouring rice wine at ritual banquets, and often deposited as grave goods in high-status burial. Examples of the shape may be described as ewers, ritual wine vessels, wine pourers and similar terms, though all of these terms are also used of a number of other shapes, especially the smaller tripod jue and the larger zun.
  The guang has a single thick foot, and a thick hollow body that represents one or more stylized animals. Guangs have a vertical handle at one end and a spout at the other, both zoomorphic, and were often highly decorated with taotie. The handle of the guang is of often in the shape of the neck and head of an animal with stylized horns, and the spout of the vessel is in the form of the head of a creature whose mouth constitutes the end of the spout. The back and animal head at the pouring end usually are a removable lid, lifted off for pouring.
context_section_description: A guang or gong is a particular shape used in Chinese art for vessels, originally made as Chinese ritual bronzes in the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC), and sometimes later in Chinese porcelain.  They are a type of ewer which was used for pouring rice wine at ritual banquets, and often deposited as grave goods in high-status burial.  Examples of the shape may be described as ewers, ritual wine vessels, wine pourers and similar terms, though all of these terms are also used of a number of other shapes, especially the smaller tripod jue and the larger zun.
  The guang has a single thick foot, and a thick hollow body that represents one or more stylized animals (some have a head at both ends).  Guangs have a vertical handle at one end and a spout at the other, both zoomorphic, and were often highly decorated with taotie. The handle of the guang is of often in the shape of the neck and head of an animal with stylized horns, and the spout of the vessel is in the form of the head of a creature whose mouth constitutes the end of the spout. The back and animal head at the pouring end usually are a removable lid, lifted off for pouring.
  Their main period of use was during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, from around 1700 to 900 BCE; thereafter the shape was sometimes used in a revivalist spirit.  The Ritual wine server (guang), Indianapolis Museum of Art, 60.43 is a fine example from about 1100 BC.
caption: Late Shang Dynasty guang, Shanghai Museum
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