Ewer, 15th-16th century
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Bronzeexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.435
On View in Gallery 220expand_more
Long-necked ewers, sometimes referred to by their Sanskrit name kundika, are used to sprinkle water during a variety of Buddhist rituals in East Asia. This rare example features a dragon coiling up the handle toward a supernatural chimera (an elephant-tiger-oxen hybrid known as a baku) crouching atop the lid.
Details
- Title
- Ewer
- Artist Life
- act. 15th-16th century, Japanese
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.435
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 818
- Curator Approved
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