Ritual Wine Flask (Bianhu)
During a ritual, wine would have been poured out of this bronze flask. Its shape was modeled after the flasks used by the nomadic peoples on the borders of the region now known as China during the 5th–3rd centuries BCE. Some of the earliest belief systems in China included com...
Artifact
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36972
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object
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normalized
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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