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Temple bell / Artist Unknown
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.237D
- Title
- Temple bell
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Medium and Support
- wood
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Myanmar (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Myanmar (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Timothy L. Dickinson and Anja Lehmann
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Wood and Woodcarving
- Primary Object Type
- furniture
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ritual Objects
- Secondary Object Type
- bell
- Physical Description
- Wood base for a temple bell.
- Subject Matter
- While the history of percussive bells in the cultures of Asia dates back thousands of years, they became particularly important in Burma where every large temple has dozens of them in all sizes, most of which are donations from the pious.
- According to the inscription on this bell, dated June 4th of 1907, it was donated to a village monastery by a family, who, “keeping nibbana (nirvana) as the ultimate goal,” wanted to accumulate “good merit in this life and subsequent rebirths.” The acquisition of merit is the most common impetus behind donations to monasteries and temples in all Buddhist countries as it is a simple way for a layperson to assure a better life for him- or herself and their family in their next incarnation.
- Secondary Keywords
- hollow-bodied
- bells and sets of bells
- buildings and the land
- chordophones
- descriptors
- directly struck idiophones
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- materials
- materials by origin
- objects we use
- percussion idiophones
- plant material
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- struck idiophones
- support furniture
- wood and wood products
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1878 x 2628
- File Size
- 657 KB
- Record
- 2002/2.237D
- Link to this Item
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"Temple bell; Artist Unknown." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2002-sl-2.237d/2002_2.237.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 09, 2024.
