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Photo: iocolor, LLP
Ladle
Photo: iocolor, LLP

Ladle

Date9th century
Object number45.66
Photo CreditPhoto: iocolor, LLP
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, "Arts of T'ang Dynasty", 1957(1957) Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty in American Collections, Nov.3, 1984-Sept. 22, 1985 (New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Feb. 5 - Apr. 21, 1985; Northampton, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, June 1 - July 14, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chinese Metalwork, July 12 - Nov. 27, 1988. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Timeless Grandeur: Art from China, Apr. 25, 2002 - June 12, 2005. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing. Published ReferencesSullivan, Michael. "On the Origin of Landscape Representation in Chinese Art." Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, Vol. 7 (1953): p. 54-65. Sheets, Hilarie M. "Reframing the question, 'What is Asian art?'" The Art Newspaper, no. 320 (February 2020): p. 25, reproduced.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions12 1/8 × 3 1/2 × 2 3/8in. (30.8 × 8.9 × 6cm)
MediumGilded silver
Ritual vessel
18th century
Object number: 65.99
Photo: Susan Cole
Chinese
1873
Object number: 2007.20
Horse fittings
Japanese
ca. 6th century
Object number: 49.89.1
Horse fittings
Japanese
ca. 6th century
Object number: 49.89.2
Horse fittings
Japanese
ca. 6th century
Object number: 49.89.3
Horse fittings
Japanese
ca. 6th century
Object number: 49.89.4
Horse fittings
Japanese
ca. 6th century
Object number: 49.89.5
Horse fittings
Japanese
ca. 6th century
Object number: 49.89.6
Stem bowl with stupa-shaped cover
Japanese
8th century
Object number: 59.130
E. W. Godwin
ca. 1875
Object number: 2013.21
Ladle
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.844