Collection record · Objects & craft
Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines
The collection record classifies this work as silver. It is dated 700s. Recorded culture or place: China, Tang dynasty (618–907).
Explore the object recordOBJECT RECORD
A closer look at the details.
- Museum title
- Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines
- Date
- 700s
- Culture / origin
- China, Tang dynasty (618–907)
- Materials and technique
- silver with gilt, incised, and chased decoration
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 4.8 x 30.5 cm (1 7/8 x 12 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1972.39
FROM THE MUSEUM
In the museum’s words
The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Precious Sassanian and Central Asian metalwork had been imported to China as early as the 4th and 5th centuries as a result of wars and prosperous trade along the Silk Road. With the influx of foreign metalworkers to cosmopolitan Tang China, the techniques of sheet metalworking were introduced to the Chinese. This silver vessel demonstrates the effects of such east-west exchanges along the Silk Road. Its decoration with intricate gilt, incised and chased designs against a ring-punched ground is of a particularly high standard.
FOLLOW THE SOURCE
Text and image sources
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund · CC0
The summary is based on public collection data. Refer to the museum’s latest record for the title, date and attribution.
Open the complete museum record View the open-access policyTHE VISITOR BOOK
What caught your eye?
Opening the visitor book…
