About this artwork
This canteen-shaped container was probably modeled after leather flasks designed to be slung from the shoulder by cords. The bricklike pattern of inlaid copper may allude to this cord wrapping. A stamp carved with a pattern of feather-curls was repeatedly impressed into the clay mold to create this intricate surface decoration.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 132
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Department
- Arts of Asia
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Title
- Flask (bianhu)
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Place
- China (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 475 BCE–221 BCE
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Medium
- Bronze inlaid with copper
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Dimensions
- 36.3 × 34 × 11 cm (14 5/16 × 13 3/8 × 4 5/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
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Reference Number
- 1937.1
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/23144/manifest.json
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