Palanquin Ring
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Two serpents form Palanquin Ring, a twelfth- or thirteenth-century bronze fitting in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Their heads rise at the sides, while projecting flanges turn their spines into ornament. Separately cast clusters combine bird, human, monkey and elephant forms on both faces. The ring would have hung from a hook on a wooden carrying pole, supporting a suspended seat. Palanquins carried royalty, priests and sacred objects during religious processions. On view in gallery 244, Indian and Southeast Asian art.
Slovy muzea
When members of the royal family or priesthood traveled in a public festival procession to make offerings at a temple or participate in a ceremony, they would be carried in a palanquin, or a covered litter. Portable objects of veneration, such as bronze images or a sacred fire, were also carried on palanquins. The palanquins had wooden poles, hanging seats or raised platforms, and bronze fittings cast in intricate forms and gilt, lending the palanquins a sumptuous quality.
This ring, which supported a suspended seat, would have hung on a hook attached to a wooden pole.
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The body of the ring is shaped in the form of a pair of nagas, or serpents. The flanges, or protrusions, on the top and sides are stylized spines of the serpent’s body, and the heads rear up on either side. In a richly textured cluster of separately cast figures on both sides of the ring are images of composite bird-human, monkey-human, and elephant forms.
Clevelandské muzeum umění
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- 2011.151
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- Clevelandské muzeum umění
- Obrázek: Clevelandské muzeum umění — Museum open access
