Chinese Ritual Vessels

Ancient Chinese Vessel Hand Carved Decorative Ritual Tripod Style Ding pot decorative vase vessel 11.63 w x 7.75 h x 4.25 d Preowned original vintage unrestored Refer to images listed.

A Fine Chinese Bronze Archaistic Jue Ritual Vessel This interesting Chinese Archaistic Jue is finely cast in bronze and it represents an ancient pouring vessel used in rituals and c...

The archaistic bronze-vessel form draws on much older Chinese ritual vessel design traditions.

19th century large Chinese iron ritual wine vessel or jue. Beautifully patinated with traces of original gilding, this is a fine example of the ancient drinking vessel used in ceremo...

Patinated bronze Chinese Zun vessel. Originally a ritual container to hold wine, this piece could also be used as a decorative vase or sculptural element.

Very early, 206 BC to 220 AD, square shaped bronze fang hu bronze vessel would have functioned as a ritual container for the storage and transportation of sumptuous wines.

Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style verdigis bronze ritual urn with raised archaistic patterns wrapping its form and accented with small rings on two sides beneath the opening. Charact...

Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style verdigis bronze ritual wine vessel with raised archaistic patterns, accented with two rings and topped with a lid bearing three bird-form finials.

Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style bulbous form verdigis bronze ritual wine vessel with an archaistic raised banded pattern, a domed lid with four zoomorphic-shaped loops, two decorat...

Chinese vintage quadrangular flambé vases inspired by Neolithic ritual Cong-form objects. Inspired by Neolithic ritual Cong-form objects, these Chinese vintage quadrangular flambé va...

Beautifully commemorated on this squared ginger jar, tripod censers and bronze ritual vessels have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites and ...

A polychrome porcelain sculpture of a man holding a small ritual vessel. Dated 1998. Created by Wang Qiang Biao (1970).

This Chinese bronze vessel was created in the traditional archaistic style, drawing inspiration from ancient ritual bronze forms of early Chinese antiquity.

Chinese Jue, Bronze Ritual Wine Vessel, Honorific Mark, 20th Century or Older  This exquisite Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel, known as a jue, is a beautiful example of archaistic ...

A stunning and rare Chinese archaic bronze gui, a type of ritual bronze vessel used to hold grain, either for feasting, or for making offerings to the ancestors, late Shang to early ...

Shapes Although there are many different shapes in Chinese bronze ritual vessels, they can be reduced to a few essential types used for the ritual of ancestor worship.

While it bears a Japanese maker's mark on the base, the visual identity of this pot is intentionally styled to look like an ancient Chinese ritual vessel. During the Meiji period, Ja...

This is an antique Gu ritual vessel. An Oriental, bronze ceremonial beaker, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Delightfully weathered offering vessel, with appealing d...

A gu is type of ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties (i.e. 1600–256 BC).

Those Qing-period interpretations were themselves derived from much earlier Chinese ritual bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, whose archaic geometric ornament and mask-h...

The second plate functions as an object study, illustrating various Chinese ritual bronzes and incense vessels arranged in a balanced and symmetrical format.

Han Dynasty, China, 206 BCE–220 CE Terracotta tripod ding vessel modeled after ancient Chinese ritual bronze forms.

Although inspired by Chinese archaic ritual bronze vessel in both form and decorative motif, the vase was made with modern outlook in mind and appears quite so with its near abstract...