Title

Jade waterpot made from a Han sword pommel, Ming dynasty, China, 1368-1644. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Jade waterpot made from a Han sword pommel, Ming dynasty, China, 1368-1644. A greenish jade with extensive brown areas waterpot carved with incised kui dragons and classic scroll decoration out of a typical Han dynasty sword pommel. This pommel would originally have had raised rice pattern on its top (what is now the base of the waterpot), of which some traces remain. Three of the knobs which formed the rice pattern have been used to fill the three holes round the mouth of the waterpot which would have served to affix the pommel to the top of the sword.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1368

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B74_197

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,2Mb (395,1Kb) / 9,3in x 7,6in / 2800 x 2276 (300dpi)

Keywords

horizontal Asian Asia ORIENTAL stone arts country China art Chinese green continent color colour brown carved ming location circular century artefact dynasty Ming Dynasty artifact 17th century 14th century 16th century Fourteenth Century sixteenth century seventeenth century 15th century Museum of East Asian Art fifteenth century Han dynasty sword pommel water pot object Unknown jade jade object