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Silver Vessels
The collection record classifies this work as silver. It is dated c. late 600s–early 700s. Recorded culture or place: Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet.
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- Museum title
- Silver Vessels
- Date
- c. late 600s–early 700s
- Culture / origin
- Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet
- Materials and technique
- Silver with gilded foil
- Dimensions
- Part 1: 22.9 cm (9 in.); Part 2: 10.2 x 10.2 cm (4 x 4 in.); Part 3: 500 g (1.1 lbs.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1988.67
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
These vessels attest to the international climate that pervaded the regions of China, Tibet, and Central Asia during the time of the expansionist Tang dynasty (618–907). They are ornamented predominantly with Central Asian elements, including grape vines, beaded borders, heart-shaped motifs, and real and fantastic creatures. Stylistically, the Tibetan objects resemble the metalwork of Sogdian craftspeople, who came from the regions of modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and settled across Asia. These artists are known to have specialized in the technique of offsetting the silver repoussé design with gilded foil, using heat and pressure to adhere the foil to the silver surface of the vessel.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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