# Ritual bell

- By: anonymous
- Date: 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
- 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)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-9--1cf30147319e008158873fe234f03c02)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/mtmcn/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.