Vessel: Canteen (Bian hu)

Chinese Eastern Zhou, 770-221 B.C.
ca. 300-250 B.C.
Bronze inlaid with silver 12 1/2 x 12 x 4 5/8 in. (31.1 x 30.5 x 11.7 cm.)
Origin: Henan province?, China
Gift of Charles Lang Freer

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
The national museum of Asian art for the United States

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