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Vase
Also titled Vaas
c. 1127 - c. 1279
- Medium
- stoneware, glaze
- Classification
- grave vase
- Dimensions
- diameter 12.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This vase has an unusual oval shape with a tall slender neck around which are depicted clouds, dragons, and immortal beings. This type of vase is known as hunping (vase of the soul). It was placed in a grave along with the deceased with the wish that their soul would safely ascend to heaven.
