File:Cambodia, Angkor Wat-Bayon period, 12th-13th century - Palanquin Ring - 2011.151 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg

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Palanquin Ring
Description
When members of the royal family or priesthood traveled in a public festival procession or to a temple like Banteay Chhmar to make offerings 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.

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.
Date 1100
date QS:P571,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Bronze
Dimensions Overall: 24.1 x 23 x 6.5 cm (9 1/2 x 9 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Indian and South East Asian Art
Accession number
2011.151
Place of creation Cambodia, Angkor Wat/Bayon period, 12th-13th century
Credit line Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.151

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