Bowl of a ritual spoon

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a bronze ritual spoon with an ornate handle and bowl. The handle is long and thin, with a decorative finial at the end. It features a human head near the finial, and a series of ornate patterns and shapes along its length, including a series of stacked discs. The bowl of the spoon is round and shallow, with a decorative gold band around its rim. The spoon is lying on a plain surface, with a gradient background that fades from dark gray at the top to light gray at the bottom. The title of the image is "Bowl of a ritual spoon" and the artist is not specified.