唐 白瓷雙龍耳壶|Amphora with dragon-shaped handles
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7th century · Stoneware with raised decoration and pale buff glaze · Asian Art
This wine container reflects the cosmopolitanism of Chinese art in the seventh and eighth centuries. Its ovoid body and tall neck recall the shape of Greco-Roman amphoras made in the eastern Mediterranean, while its animal-headed handles allude to versions in Persian and Central Asian metalwork. But the fine buff glaze of its stoneware is distinctively local, and the handles’ animal heads have turned into Chinese dragons.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 7th century
- Medium
- Stoneware with raised decoration and pale buff glaze
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert E. Tod, 1938
