Bell
Bronze
銅鐘
中國
鐘頂微隆，上有鐘鈕，鈕作一體雙首的蒲牢，作張爪撲勢狀。鐘體略弧近乎直線，下緣微展。表面以橫、豎凸弦紋隔出上下兩段區塊，組成天、地、玄、黃等上四宮和東、南、西、北等下四宮的方格紋，縱橫有序，形似僧人的袈裟圖紋，故名袈裟紋。
鐘壁中央略偏下方處，前後相對設一蓮花形鼓凸的撞座。豎直弦紋內鐫刻銘文，得知製作年代為唐大曆五年（770），另有功德主姓名和發願文等，惜因年代久遠，部分文字已無法辨識。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 9.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Bell." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 9.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Bell" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:9.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Bell. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 9).
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