Talk:Guang (vessel)

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Is Guang really a correct or widespread spelling? The Mandarin (Pinyin) and Cantonese romanizations are gong and gwang. --JWB (talk) 17:07, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Guang : [1] [2]
Gong [3] --Lilyu (talk) 07:20, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure, i thought guang might be the english for gong, so i changed the title. But now i have a doubt : is there two different things, one called Guang, and one called Gong?

The photo on the article is a Gong, and the description of Gong match here and on source

Second source of article shows a guang : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/43.25.4

Gong in shanghai museum

This source looks more like a Gong but is labeled Guang. *sigh* --Lilyu (talk) 08:03, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This source : [4] and [5](no legs) , describe Gong as follow :

Gong is a kind of wine vessel and this one's shape is a hybrid of many different animals. Its cover is adorned with the head of an imaginary animal with rabbit ears and giraffe horns, with a small dragon in high relief as its chine. The back of the cover is in ox-head shape, corresponding to the ox-head-shaped handle. Its belly is embellished with big phoenix patterns and its ring foot with phoenix-claw patterns.

In such a case, than maybe the slitly different shapes of [6] (no legs, no lid) and [7] (no legs, no circle handle) would be included in this description.

Than, if this is correct, gong (or gōng) and guang would be the same type of item. --Lilyu (talk) 05:48, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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This is one of seven bronze vessels our Early Chinese Art class will be working on this semester. Amjomartin (talk) 15:36, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]