Jia
Unidentified Zhou Dynasty maker, Chinese, about 1046–256 BCE
Zhou Dynasty, 1050-256 BCE
Bronze
Overall: 19 in. (48.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
M.958.374
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Vessel
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscription on the inside of the neck is fake.
Course History
CHIN 52, Readings in Classical Chinese: Daoist Philosophical Texts, Sarah Allan, Spring 2015
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2026
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.11, Religion 2.02, Religions of Vietnam, Sara Swenson, Winter 2025
Geography 3.01, Living with Nature, Coleen Fox, Winter 2025
Philosophy 50.18, Animal Minds, Tina Rosenqvist, Winter 2025
Religion 40.08, Fear & Loathing in Religion, MK Long, Winter 2025
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums…?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Spring 2025
Religion 1.13, Sacred Movement, Robert Weiner, Spring 2025
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 70.24, Asian American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Spring 2025
College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025
Comparative Literature 55.03, Asian Societies, Culture, and Language 60.10, Eco-Fiction: Stories of Ghosts and Other Beings from Premodern China, Yiren Zheng, Fall 2025
History 72.04, Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 64.16, China to 1800, Yi (Luis) Lu, Fall 2025
Special Tour: Attitude of Coexistence and Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025
Exhibition History
A Collector's Choice, William B. Jaffe Memorial Exhibition, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8-January 7, 1973.
Asian Art From the College Collection, Barrows Print Room and Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 5-31, 1974.
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 2-October 4, 2025.
Provenance
Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1958.
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