Subject: ya noble warrior

Culture: Shang proto-Chinese

Setting: Shang dynasty, central China 18th-11thc BC

Object: 樽 bottle

Sackler Gallery *

"Ritual wine container 樽 Zun

Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century B.C., Bronze ...

The naturalistic attributes of the owl are deliberately

absorbed into the simple shape of this vessel.

The wings are smoothly blended into the rounded form of the body,

and the beak and head conveniently made to correspond to the domed lid."

Sackler Gallery *

"Ritual wine container Guang Shang dynasty, 12 century B.C. Bronze ...

No attempt was made to depict complete animal forms on this vessel.

Only the animals' heads, arbitrarily placed at either end of the lid, are evident."

* Brooklyn Museum > China

"Ritual Wine Vessel (Guang) China, late Shang dynasty

(13th-11th century B.C.) Bronze: ...