E56 White Jade Animal Face Gong (Wine Container)

E56 White Jade Animal Face Gong (Wine Container) (Height: 12.20cm)

This horn shaped cup was called "Gong" in ancient times. It was used in the Warring States period and for concubines. At that time, the monarch enjoyed feasting and the concubines accompanied him. And this shape of the Gong can not stand upright, so the king gave wine must drink! The empress of the imperial concubine called "Gong" as "no way.". This horn shaped cup of "Gong" still has "rhinoceros horn" in the court of Qing Dynasty, which is still called "no way."I have to drink it!            

The mouth of the vessel is oval, and the bottom of the cup has long and curved ganoderma lucidum; the next circle of the mouth is engraved with a triangle pattern (internal parallel lines), the body is carved with animal faces, circles, and rectangles and sharp points. The first GUI shape (both engraved with oblique squares). The above decorations are all features commonly used in the Warring States Period!           

Later in the early Western Han Dynasty: the jade horn shaped cup "Gong" unearthed from the tomb of Zhao Xuan, the king of Nanyue in Guangzhou, is also the shape of this instrument!