Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design

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Asian Art
Huo Pavilion

Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design,

second half of 5th century BCE

Chinese
Eastern Zhou dynasty, 770–256 BCE | Warring States period, ca. 470–221 BCE
2000-274 a-b
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Title
Cylindrical covered vessel with intertwined snake design
Dates

second half of 5th century BCE

Medium
Wood with black, red, and brown lacquer
Dimensions
h. 21.0 cm., diam. 11.2 cm. (8 1/4 x 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, in honor of Dr. Alvin E. Friedman Kien
Object Number
2000-274 a-b
Place Made

Asia, China, Chu State

Culture
Chinese
Period
Eastern Zhou, Warring States
Type
vessels (containers), lacquer
Materials
wood, lacquer
Subject
snakes

–2000 James Freeman (Kyoto, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2000.

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