The people of the Shang period in China cast beautiful bronze vessels, including the one shown here. Such vessels were used in ceremonies for the dead. The Shang dynasty (family of rulers) governed in what is now eastern China from about 1766 B.C. to about 1122 B.C.
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Bronze vessel (1100's B.C.) by an unknown Chinese artist; Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.</P>
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