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Gu

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A named tall bronze beaker of early Chinese sets. Not a jue, not the Simuwu ding, and not a kiddush cup.

Also known as Gu vessel

Chinese tradition

  • Gu is historically related to Bronze.

    Bushell’s Bronze chapter seats the gū as a tall ritual wine beaker among archaic Chinese bronze vessels — bronze-vessel speech, not a jade cong alone.

    from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Chinese Art · Stephen W. Bushell

    Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Art (V&A handbook, 1904–1906).