Ritual bell
Also titled Rituele bel
after -0482
- Medium
- bronze (metal)
- Classification
- bell (idiophone)
- Dimensions
- height 58.5 cm x width 42 cm x diameter 34.5 cm x weight 44 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Edgar Worch, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, Berlin, 1930)
- 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 bell once formed part of a large set attached to a wooden frame by their dragon handles. Two separate tones could be produced by striking the bell in two different places – in the middle and at an angle on the side. The knobs are decorated with a beast restraining a bird. The meaning of this motif is not clear.
