Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene

Central Vietnam

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 245

This remarkable bronze presentation dish can be attributed to the Cham territories of Vietnam. It has an elaborately decorated cavetto with three equestrian riders wielding a bow, a lance, and a sword, respectively, while hunting in a forested landscape populated by elephants, buffalo, and lions. It probably served as a presentation dish in a court. No precedent for this object was known until the recent discovery of a second dish, in a hoard excavated in Lam Dong Province, southern Vietnam. Both dishes are likely the products of court workshops associated with a Cham kingdom in the late first millennium.


cat. no. 3

Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene, Copper alloy, Central Vietnam

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Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene, Copper alloy, Central Vietnam
Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene, Copper alloy, Central Vietnam
Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene, Copper alloy, Central Vietnam

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