Ritual wine scoop with monster heads and a dragon, anonymous, -1100 - -800

Identification

Title(s)

Ritual wine scoop with monster heads and a dragon

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-11

Description

Rituele wijnlepel met een pijpekop-vormig reservoir dat door twee monsterkoppen en een geprofileerde steel verbonden is met het handvat.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

-1100 - -800

School / style

Zhou-dynasty (1050 B.C.-221 B.C.)

Material and Technique

Material

bronze (metal)

Measurements

width 21.5 cm × height 3.5 cm × depth 3.5 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Oriental Fine Arts Inc, New York, 1949)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer Oriental Fine Arts Inc, New York, £ 80, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1949;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 35, cat.nr. 7
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 25
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 14
Phoenix : maandschrift voor beeldende kunsten, (1949), febr., p. 54

Persistent URL

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