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Wade Fund, 1930.730", "current_location": "241A Arts of Ancient China", "title": "Finial", "creation_date": "475\u2013221 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -475, "creation_date_latest": -221, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Henan province, Jincun, Warring States period (475\u2013221 BCE)"], "technique": "bronze inlaid with gold and silver", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Zhou Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Overall: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.131, "height_inch": 5, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312517, "title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition", "description": "<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).", "opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"}, {"id": 312341, "title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition", "description": "<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).", "opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"}, {"id": 520038, "title": "Chinese Art of Late Eastern Chou Dynasty", "description": "<i>Chinese Art of Late Eastern Chou Dynasty</i>. Chinese Art Society of America, New York, NY (organizer) (November 13-December 11, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-11-13T05:00:00"}, {"id": 378943, "title": "East-West in Art", "description": "<i>East-West in Art</i>. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 31, 1966).", "opening_date": "1966-06-22T04:00:00"}, {"id": 445621, "title": "Animal Style in Nomadic Asia", "description": "<i>Animal Style in Nomadic Asia</i>. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (January 14-March 15, 1970); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (April 2-May 31, 1970); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (June 15-July 30, 1970).", "opening_date": "1970-01-14T05:00:00"}, {"id": 310291, "title": "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia", "description": "<i>Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990).", "opening_date": "1990-07-24T04:00:00"}, {"id": 311444, "title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum", "description": "<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).", "opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Edgar Worch Collection of Antique Chinese Art</em>. Fifty-Sixth Street Gallery, Inc., New York, NY (1930).", "opening_date": "1930-01-01T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>International Exhibition of Chinese Art. </em>Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England (November 28, 1935-March 7, 1936).", "opening_date": "1935-11-28T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes</em>. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).", "opening_date": "1938-10-19T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>La D\u00e9couverte de l'Asie: Hommage \u00e0 Ren\u00e9 Grousset</em>. Mus\u00e9e Cernuschi, Paris, France (May 14-July 31, 1954).", "opening_date": "1954-05-14T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>The Age of Bronze</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-October 17, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-07-13T04:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "said to be from Hsin-hsiang in Northern Honan [Henan] Province, China", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Jo\u0308rg Tru\u0308bner [1903\u20131930] acquired in China, to his brother-in-law, Edgar Worch", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "after 1925\u2013by 1930", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Edgar Worch [1880\u20131972], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131930", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1930\u2013", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This finial is made to be placed on the top of a pole or staff.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Chariots and weapons were associated with hunting and warfare in the ancient world. Those bronze fittings with lavish inlaid decoration were status symbols of rulers and high-ranking officials. <br><br>This finial combines extravagance and ferocious beauty to reveal the aesthetics of the time. The birds with hooked beaks are above the intertwined serpent-dragons. Such artistic conception emphasizes the power of the bird in combat. Every facet of this finial is exquisitely crafted to give full play to the inlaid decoration.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60762458"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1930.730-finial"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Ku\u0308mmel, Otto. <em>Jo\u0308rg Tru\u0308bner zum Geda\u0308chtnis. Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen</em>. Berlin: Klinkhardt &amp; Biermann, 1930.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 47, pp. 94\u201395", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Hollis, Howard C. \u201cTwo Chinese Bronzes.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 18, no. 4 (April 1931): 66\u201373.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 70\u201371", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137378"}, {"citation": "Spendlove, F. St. George, ed. C<em>atalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-6</em>. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1935.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 387, pp. 29, 38", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936.", "page_number": "no. 383", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936</em>. London: Faber and Faber, 1936.", "page_number": "no. 387", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the T\u02bbang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); An Exhibition Lent by American Collectors and Museums and Shown in Gallery D6 from October 19 Through November 27, 1938</em>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938.", "page_number": "no. 177", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>La de\u0301couverte de l'Asie. [Exposition] hommage a\u0300 Rene\u0301 Grousset</em>. Paris: Muse\u0301e Cernuschi, 1954.", "page_number": "no. 409", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 803", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n143"}, {"citation": "Bunker, Emmy Cadwalader. <em>The Art of Eastern Chou, 772-221 B.C.: A Loan Exhibition [the China House, Nov. 13-Dec. 15, 1962]</em>. New York, NY: Chinese Art Society of America, 1962.", "page_number": "no. 7", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 246", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n270"}, {"citation": "Bowie, Theodore Robert. <em>East-West in Art: Patterns of Cultural &amp; Aesthetic Relationships</em>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1966.", "page_number": "no. 134", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 246", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n270"}, {"citation": "Bunker, Emma C., Bruce Chatwin, and Ann E. Farkas. <em>Animal Style Art from East to West [Catalogue of an Exhibition]</em>. New York: Asia Society; Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1970.", "page_number": "no. 74", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 326", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n346"}, {"citation": "Wilson, J. 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