Water Ewer for Rituals (Kundika)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.58
Known as kundika in Sanskrit, this distinctively shaped vessel served to purify a sacred space and to invoke a deity. In Korean Buddhist art, it appears primarily as an attribute of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Gwaneum in Korean). By the 1100s, however, the kundika was used...
Artifact
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156127
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1991.58
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Terms
Culture
Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
Technique
bronze
Medium
bronze
Genre
Metalwork
Department
Korean Art
Relations
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