Lidded Funerary Urn Incised with Buddhist Sanskrit Mantras Written in Devenagari and Chinese Scripts

China

Song dynasty (960-1279), About 1200

  • Titles Lidded Funerary Urn Incised with Buddhist Sanskrit Mantras Written in Devenagari and Chinese Scripts (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium stoneware
  • Dimensions 10 1/4 x 7 in. Diam. (26 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Partial gift of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III and purchase with funds provided by the Estate of William M. Spencer III, AFI.25.2011a-b
  • Work Type jar with cover
  • Classification Containers
  • On View

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