id: 154258 accession number: 1988.67.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.67.3 updated: 2025-07-03 20:48:27.152000 Rhyton, c. late 600s–early 700s. Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet. Silver with gilded foil; overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Clara Taplin Rankin, 1988.67.3 title: Rhyton title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. late 600s–early 700s creation date earliest: 680 creation date latest: 720 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Clara Taplin Rankin copyright: --- culture: Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet technique: silver with gilded foil department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Silver find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1988 opening date: 1989-03-01T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World opening date: 2009-11-11T00:00:00 Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY (organizer) (November 11, 2009-August 15, 2010). title: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings opening date: 2018-09-07T04:00:00 Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (September 7, 2018-January 6, 2019). title: Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism opening date: 2019-02-01T05:00:00 Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 1-July 15, 2019). title: A Moveable Feast: Food Cultures in China opening date: 2025-03-19T04:00:00 A Moveable Feast: Food Cultures in China. Hong Kong Palace Museum Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (organizer) (March 19-June 18, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Selections from the Tibetan Collection (Galleries 103–104). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1993).', 'opening_date': '1993-01-01T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE (David Tremayne, Ltd., London, United Kingdom, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, as gift from Mrs. Clara Taplin Rankin) date: ?–1988 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1988– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 232, pp. 37, 75; Reproduced: cat. no. 232, p. 41 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061 Czuma, Stan. "Tibetan Silver Vessels." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (April 1993): 131–135. page number: Reproduced: p. 133; Mentioned: p. 131–135 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161400 Carter, Martha L. "Three Silver Vessels from Tibet's Earliest Historical Era: A Preliminary Study." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998) 22-47. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 22, 27–31, figs. 1, 5a-9c url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079697 Heller, Amy. Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideals and Art in Tibet, 600-2000 A.D. Milano, Italy; Woodbridge, England: Jaca Book; Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8 and 11, pls. 3, 4, 13, and 14. url: Christman, Bruce. "Three Gilded Tibetan Vessels." In Gilded Metals: History, Technology and Conservation. Terry Drayman-Weisser, ed. London: Archetype Publications Ltd. in association with the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2000. page number: Reproduced: fig. 10.1, p. 169; fig. 10.3, p. 172 url: "Silk Road Art and Archaeology." Silk Road art and archaeology: journal of the Institute of Silk Road Studies, Kamakura, vol. 9 (2003). page number: Reproduced: fig. 17, p. 224 url: Huo, Wei. “A Study of Ancient Tibetan Gold and Silver Ware.” Chinese Archaeology 12, no. 1 (November 2012): 165–74. doi:10.1515/char-2012-0020. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 216 url: Kosmin, Paul. "Banqueting on the Move." In Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.Susanne Ebbinghaus,ed., 310-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 338 364; Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 7.30; p, 364, cat, #62 url: Debreczeny, Karl. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. New York, NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019. page number: Reproduced: fig. 3.5, pp. 8-9 and p. 76 url: Heller, Amy. “Silver Jug: Ceremonial Banquet Vessels in Silver and Gold,” Project Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art, 2023, https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug/. page number: url: https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug/ Heller, Amy. “Tibetan Inscriptions on Ancient silver and gold Vessels and Artefacts.” Journal of the International Association for Bon Research, vol 1. (2013). Mentioned: footnote 38, p. 274; pp. 276–8. Reproduced: p. 277. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.67.3/1988.67.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.67.3/1988.67.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.67.3/1988.67.3_full.tif