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Canteen
Chinese5th-4th century BC
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This vessel, made for ceremonial use and then subsequently deposited in a tomb, dates from a period in which a major element of interest is the endless inventiveness of the patterns. Those patterns are here contained within small rectangles.
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Details
- Title: Canteen
- Creator Nationality: Chinese
- Date Created: 5th-4th century BC
- Physical Dimensions: w31.3 x h34.5 cm
- Type: vessels;canteens;pilgrim flasks
- Rights: Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: bronze
- Provenance: William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: China
- ExhibitionHistory: The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995
- Artist: Chinese
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