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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1944.57.29.A-C
Title
Large, Covered, Compressed Globular Reliquary, the Cover with Knob in the Form of a Stupa Finial
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
8th-9th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Unified Silla dynasty, 668-935
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/203787

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Turned bronze
Dimensions
maximum: H. 24.1 x Diam. (base) 24.7 cm (9 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Anonymous gift
Accession Year
1944
Object Number
1944.57.29.A-C
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jaime Jouris, "Chinese Black Bronze Mirrors: A Preliminary Examination" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1991), Unpublished, passim

Exhibition History

  • Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, Asia Society Museum, New York, 03/16/2010 - 06/20/2010

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