Shang Dynasty

ca. 1500-1100 BCE

Part of the Bronze Age

• Bronze Ding, Shang, ca. 13th C

• Shang bronze gui, ca. 1600-1100 BCE

• Bronze Gu (wine goblet), Shang dynasty, 13th C BCE

• Longshan Neolithic

• “Eggshell” pottery

• Closeup of tao tie on early Shang bronze

• Spouted ritual wine vessel (guang), Shang dynasty, early Anyang period (ca. 1300–1050 B.C.),

• Jue, Ritual Wine Vessel, Late Shang (12th C BCE)

• Fang I (Ritual Wine Vessel)Shang, :late 13th-12th century

• 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.

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• Shih tripod bronze ting vesselLate Shang dynasty (1300-1046 B.C.)

• Functional weapon set

• Jade ceremonial weapons

Shang Dynasty Review

• Bronze Age: weaponry, ritual vessels

• Highly stratified, wealthy and powerful society

• The basis for modern Chinese writing

• vocab: taotie, afterlife, grave goods, ritual, divination, oracle, ancestor worship, Xia dynasty, gu, ding, jue, piece-mold casting, pictograph, thunder pattern