Bell
This bell (with a loose pellet inside) was probably placed on an altar and designed to match other functional objects (such as an incense burner). The hole in the top would have been used for a rope or leather strap from which to swing the bell. These bells were produced in Java, Indonesia, during the eleventh century. Buddhism flourished in Indonesia at that time, before Islam became dominant in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bell
- Date: 11th century
- Geography: Java, Indonesia
- Culture: Javanese
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: 7 3/8 × 4 × 4 in., 46.909oz. (18.7 × 10.2 × 10.2 cm, 1330g)
- Classification: Idiophone-Shaken-crotal bell
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 09.163.8
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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