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