Slides - Ancient China/Neo Shang Flashcards
Name: Painted Bowl with faces and fish
Location: Banpo
Culture: Yangshao
Date: 5,000-4,000 BCE
Material: Clay Slip
Name: Painted Urn from Gansu
Date: 2200 BCE
Culture: Yangshao Culture
Uses the Coil Method, Earthenware, also has bold wave/geometric patterns
Name: Painted Basin with Serpent
Culture: Longshan
Location: Taosi
Date: 2500 - 1900 BCE
Name: Head
Culture: Hongshan
Date: 4000 - 3000 BCE
Location: Niuheliang
Name: Jade Plaque
Culture: Hongshan
Date: 4700 - 2900 BCE
Location: Niuheliang
Note the symbolic cloud pattern
Name: Jade Coiled Dragon (“pig-dragon”)
Culture: Hongshan
Date: 4700-2900 BCE
Name: Jade Cong
Culture: Liangzhu
Date: 3300-2250 BCE
placed under and around body in tomb; associated with burial rituals; later becomes squared symbol of earth; some decorated with early version of the taotie (ogre) mask.
Name: Jade Bi Disc
Culture: Liangzhu
Date: 3000 BCE
-Place on chest in tomb, Jade is associated with protective power and preservative powers; become circular symbols of heaven
Name: Ding (food vessel)
Date: 11th C BCE
Name: Fang You (wine vessel)
Date: 12th-11th C BCE
Name: Owl-Shaped Zun (wine vessel)
Date: 1200 BCE
Location: Tomb of Fu Hao, Consort of King Wu Ding (only Shang tomb to be discovered intact).
Name: Guang (wine-server)
Date: 1300-1200 BCE
Current Location: Freer Gallery of Art
Important: Shang use of zoomorphic imagery & thunder pattern
Name: Bronze Standing Figure
Date: 1300-1100 BCE
Location: Sanxingdui, Sichuan Province
-Important early example of large-scale human figure in Chinese art; perhaps associated with shamanistic or burial rites
Name: Ivory Inlaid Goblet
Date: 1200 BCE
Location: Tomb of Fu Hao (consort of King Wu Ding)
-Composite zoomorphic imagery
Location: Tomb of Fu Hao, 13th C BCE near Anyang, Shang Dynasty
Fu Hao was consort to King Wu Ding
