Four-legged ceremonial bronze urns on display in the Imperial City at Hue
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- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1997
- Location
- Hue, Vietnam
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use
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Large four-legged ceremonial bronze urns are displayed in a row outside a building in the Imperial City at Hué. A thriving bronze industry developed at Hué around the royal courts that, as in China, used large and ornate bronze vessels during ceremonial events.
