1. Cloisonne Vessel with Dragon Design
(Matching tags: cloisonne,vessel)

The shape and decoration of this artifact exhibits styles of ancient Greek or Sasanian Persian Empire. A circular bulge beneath the mouth highlights the 3-dimensional aspects of the mouth. Its neck shrinks ...

2. Cloisonne Bronze Vessel
(Matching tags: vessel,bronze,cloisonne)

This enameled bronze jar has curled lips, thick neck, slant shoulder, closing body, and broad feet. Two dragon-shaped ears stretch from its shoulder to neck. This artifact is slender and entirely enameled ...

3. Straight-neck glass water vessel with one ear
(Matching tags: craft,vessel)

This vessel has long neck, drooping shoulder, pseudo circular leg, and round bottom. Its mouth is curled back into a circle, its lip ground flat. Thin glass strip is stuck on the upper part of the neck. ...

4. Zu-xin Jue
(Matching tags: wine,vessel,Shang dynasty,bronze)

The zuxin wine pitcher is a artefact of the late Shang Dynasty, unearthed in Luoyang, Henan. The shape of its mouth is very peculiar. There is a long channel at the front called liu, a conduit for letting ...

5. Square Hu, Bronze Wine Vessel, with Entwined Dragon Design
(Matching tags: bronze,vessel,wine,Spring and Autumn Period)

This square bronze wine vessel with entwined dragon design was unearthed in Xinzheng, Henan in 1923. It was one of a pair. The other one is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It was unearthed from the ...

6. Lei with cloud and dragon pattern
(Matching tags: bronze,vessel,Spring and Autumn Period,wine)

The Lei, a bronze wine jar, a vessel for containing liquid, was used in worshipping ceremonies and banquets. The wine jar with a cloud and dragon design was one of the bronze representations of the Spring ...

7. Zhi(觶)
(Matching tags: Shang dynasty,bronze,vessel,Chou dynasty)

The chih was a bronze drinking vessel of the Shang and Chou dynasties.This example has the classic Shang tao-tie (a mythical creature)decorative pattern in relief on the belly of the vessel....  ...

8. Square Yan with Bo Song-fu inscripition
(Matching tags: vessel,bronze)

... necessary item of sacrificial vessels. ...  ...

9. Anthropomorphic Jar
(Matching tags: vessel,earthenware)

The lip of the rim of the anthropomorphic jar was repaired. The body of the vase curves in at the neck and near the bottom....

10. Earthenware vessel with human face (人面陶罐)
(Matching tags: earthenware,vessel)

This vessel is excavated in the Shih San Hang Site. The surface is decorated with circle shape and dot pattern. There is also a vivid human face in the body....  ...