Canteen

Description 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.

Exhibitions

• The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters