COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_09134
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Amphora with dragon-shaped handles
Date:
7th century
Date type:
creation
Repository name:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository name variant:
Met, the
Repository location:
New York, New York
Repository_inventory_ number:
38.56.7
Style_Period:
Tang (Chinese culture, style, period)
Style_Period name variant:
Tang dynasty
Subject:
amphorae (storage vessels)
Subject:
dragons
Subject:
patterns (design elements)
Culture:
Chinese (culture or style)
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type:
ceramics (objects)
Work_type:
pottery (object genre)
Material_Technique:
stoneware with raised decoration and pale buff glaze
Measurement:
51.1 x 27.3 cm
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny
Note:
From the Metropolitan Museum website "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."
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Duplication rights - Walter Denny
Filename:
WBD_09134.JPG
