商 青銅盉|Spouted Water Container (He)
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late 14th century BCE · Bronze · Asian Art
This ritual water container is among the earliest bronze vessels decorated with snakes. In this example the serpent’s open jaws form the spout. Straps would have been threaded through the lugs on the shoulder and holes on the foot to hold the vessel.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- late 14th century BCE
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985
