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Bronze Ritual Vessels Shang Dynasty. Courtesy of the asian art museum, the avery brundage collection, b61b11+. The era of the shang and the zhou dynasties is generally known as the bronze age of china, because bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, used to fashion weapons, parts of chariots, and ritual vessels, played an important role in the material culture of the time.

A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE , LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH11TH
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Compare with two similar gu illustrated in bronzes in the palace museum, beijing, 1999. The bronze age in china began around 2000 bce, and the earliest excavated ritual bronze vessels date to around 1600 bce. 13 shang dynasty old china bronze ware.

A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL, JUE , LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH11TH

In europe, grecian bronzes typically of figures from greek mythology; Gugong qingtong qi 故宮青銅器 / bronzes in the palace museum. The earliest examples of bronze vessels were unearthed in erlitou, near the modern city of luoyang in henan province, which may or may not represent the earliest named shang capital, po, if not a still earlier xia dynasty site. In africa, the bronze heads of the kingdom of benin;