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Ewer with Crocodile (Makara) Spout
Eastern Tibet (Kham)
16th century
- Medium
- Brass with copper bands over bamboo core
- Classification
- Vessel
- Dimensions
- 50.1 × 12.2 × 21.3 cm (19 3/4 × 4 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Tibet
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Alsdorf Foundation, Asian Benefit, Mary Diamond, Edward Douglas, Felix and Helen Juda Foundation; Margaret Gentles and Kemp Benevolent funds; Margrette Dornbusch, and Frederick Gookin endowments; through prior acquisitions of Katharine Kuh
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
