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Carved ceremonial ale bowl of wood, carved and painted, Norway, 18th century.
Ceremonial drinking vessel, carved from a single block of birch, with two horses head-shaped handles, painted in rich colours. The grain of the wood runs transversely between the horses' heads, and a spine of thicker wood in a saddle shape runs down inside the handles and across the bottom to add strength when the bowl was full of liquid. The wood has split at the bottom and is reinforced with a m…
Subject
- Ceremonial objects; Containers; Drinking; Folk Art; Access_to_Images 2003; SCRAN
Type of item
- Ale bowl; Kjenge
Date
- 1750-1800
- 1750/1800
Subject
- Ceremonial objects; Containers; Drinking; Folk Art; Access_to_Images 2003; SCRAN
Type of item
- Ale bowl; Kjenge
Date
- 1750-1800
- 1750/1800
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Places
- Norway
- Norway
Identifier
- O49624
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-12T14:28:04.473Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-04-26T14:18:50.916Z