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Ritual food vessel, or yan, with animal mask handles
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Details
- Associated place
- Material and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
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17 cm (height)
16 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
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container › vessel › cooking-vessel › steamer › yan,
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.876
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Further reading
Loveday, Helen, Chinese Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Handbook to the Collections (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1990), p. 35, illus. p. 39 pl. 17
Location
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- currently in research collection
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