Sentence examples for wine vessels from inspiring English sources
Zun, ( Chinese: "sacrificial vessel") Wade-Giles romanization tsun, any of a wide range of ancient Chinese wine vessels.
He sought divine favour by abjuring liquor, breaking the wine vessels and pouring the wine down a well.
The gold pouring implement, with a short inlet on the back and a tubular spout coming out of the mouth, belongs in a series of Iranian wine vessels.
He finally settled on a more minimal design, a cluster of four structures, bulging forms that resemble neckless and footless Chinese bronze wine vessels from the Shang Dynasty, about 1200 B.C.
The 70 mostly useful objects, from the collection at Yale, include bronze ritual wine vessels and incense burners, porcelain water pots and vases, wooden brush holders, lacquer boxes, ceramics and calligraphy.
Continuum, a book cataloguing his practice's work, explains that Z15's elegant concave shape was inspired by traditional Chinese wine vessels, bamboo-weaving and sky lanterns, not to mention "the freshness and beauty of flourishing lotus flowers".
Around the corner, there's a Han dynasty bronze wine vessel in the shape of a goose whose naturalism contrasts strikingly with the earlier Chinese bronzes.
In shades of green ranging from pale celadon to rich turquoise, they start with a perky three-legged Shang dynasty jia (wine vessel), whose smooth surface imitates ceramics.
One of the most unusual pieces in the show is a large glazed stoneware ram that was used as a wine vessel.
Among them, a wine vessel rising from a square base also looks earlier than the second century B.C. by a century or two.
The most expensive piece was an admirable wine vessel of architectural form from the Shang Dynasty that Mr. Hardy bought from Eskenazi in London in December 1985.
