Cette structure à double coque, dont l’une ajourée et ornée de serpents, représente une prouesse technique dont ne connaît qu’un seul autre exemple, découvert en Chine en 1980.
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Three remarkable objects
The MEG’s Asian collection numbers nearly 15,000 objects, with a special focus on religious iconography, weapons, India, Tibet, China and Japan. Three objects are particularly impressive:
- a bowl from Palestine which was the very first object to enter the old Archaeology Museum;
- a ritual Chinese bowl with a double bottom, one with an open work snake pattern, a technical exploit of which there is only one other known example, discovered in China in 1980;
- a 5000-year-old urn, the oldest scientifically dated piece in the MEG.
Bibliograpy
- Loveday, Helen. 2002. "Diversity in Eastern Zhou Bronze Casting : a Look at a Group of Openwork Vessels", Journal of East Asian Archaeology, vol. 4-1, p. 101-142
- Loveday, Helen. 2008. « Une coupe chinoise du Ve siècle avant notre ère », Totem, n° 50. Genève: MEG , p. 16-17
