China: Ya Fu square lei (wine vessel), late Shang Dynasty (13th-11th century BCE), Shanghai Museum, Shanghai

The Ya Fu square lei (wine vessel) is regarded as a masterpiece of the Shang Dynasty (13th - 11th century BCE) and one of the greatest artifacts yet discovered from China's Bronze Age.

The Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāng cháo) or Yin Dynasty (Chinese: 殷代; pinyin: Yīn dài), according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BCE, succeeding the Xia Dynasty and followed by the Zhou Dynasty.

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