You' wine vessel, 11th century BCE, 8 9/16 × 8 5/16 × 5 5/8 in., 5.7 lb. (21.75 × 21.11 × 14.29 cm, 2.6 kg)5 1/2 × 4 3/8 in. (13.97 × 11.11 cm) (object part, mouth-b)4 7/8 × 3 7/8 in. (12.38 × 9.84 cm) (object part, mouth-a)5 13/16 × 4 13/16 in. (14.76 × 12.22 cm) (object part, foot), Bronze, China, 11th century BCE, Bronze Age vessels were highly valued as antiquities by Chinese rulers and scholar-officials throughout history. In fact, this is one of a pair of inscribed vessels first published in the Xiqing Gujian, the 18th-century imperial catalogue of bronzes belonging to the Qianlong dynasty emperor (r. 1736-95).