{"data": {"id": 112308, "accession_number": "1930.731", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou) (\u92ea\u9996), 500s. China, Henan province, Northern Dynasties period (386\u2013581 CE). Gilt bronze; overall: 13.6 x 20 cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1930.731", "current_location": "241B Arts of Ancient China", "title": "Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou)", "title_in_original_language": "\u92ea\u9996", "creation_date": "500s", "creation_date_earliest": 500, "creation_date_latest": 599, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Henan province, Northern Dynasties period (386\u2013581 CE)"], "technique": "gilt bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Southern Dynasties", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Overall: 13.6 x 20 cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.136, "height_inch": 5, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.2, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"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": 702560, "title": "Asia and the West", "description": "<i>Asia and the West</i>. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 28-December 1, 1957).", "opening_date": "1957-10-28T05:00:00"}, {"id": 702986, "title": "Masks: The Many Faces of Man", "description": "<i>Masks: The Many Faces of Man</i>. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (organizer) (February 10-April 5, 1959).", "opening_date": "1959-02-10T05:00:00"}, {"id": 302145, "title": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture", "description": "<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).", "opening_date": "1975-09-24T04:00:00"}, {"id": 310042, "title": "Images of the Mind", "description": "<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).", "opening_date": "1987-07-07T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the T\u02bbang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906)</em>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).", "opening_date": "1938-10-19T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Golden Gate International Expositions</em>. San Francisco, CA (1939).", "opening_date": "1939-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Art in Asia and the West</em>. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (October 28-December 1, 1957).", "opening_date": "1957-10-28T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Masks: The Many Faces of Man</em>. The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (February 11-April 5,1959).", "opening_date": "2011-02-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "said to be from Sung-Shan in Honan [Henan] Province, China", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->Ku\u0308mmel, Otto. <em>Jo\u0308rg Tru\u0308bner zum Geda\u0308chtnis. Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen</em>. Berlin: Klinkhardt &amp; Biermann, 1930. Mentioned p. 112, Tafel 57: \"Angeblich auf dem Sung-shan, Honan, ausgegraben.\"</div>"], "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], 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": "Three rivet holes (one on the forehead and one by each limb) were used to nail the mask onto a door.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This gilt bronze Door Ring Holder is in the form of a monster head with curving horns, protruding eyes, three-clawed paws, curling beard, and flame-shaped hair. The tongue dangles from the mouth, in which the creature originally grasped a ring. While it had a practical function as a door knocker, the intimidating form could also frighten away both intruders and evil spirits.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60763741"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1930.731-monster-face-door-ri"]}, "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. 57, pp. 112\u2013113", "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: p. 72", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137378"}, {"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": "Mentioned: cat. no. 334, p. 28", "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/147054"}, {"citation": "<em>Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures</em>. San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.", "page_number": "cat. no. 55", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Morley, Grace. <em>Art in Asia and the West: An Exhibition to Illustrate Varied Aspects of Asian Traditions and Their Importance for Art in the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957</em>. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957.", "page_number": "cat. no. 16b", "url": ""}, {"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. 816", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n145"}, {"citation": "<em>Masks: The Many Faces of Man : an Exhibition Presented by the Division of Art and Archaeology of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Canada. </em>Toronto: The Museum, 1959.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. E17", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145, fig. no. 170", "url": ""}, {"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. 249", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n273"}, {"citation": "Christie, Anthony.<em> Chinese Mythology</em>. London: Hamlyn, 1968.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 106", "url": ""}, {"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. 249", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n273"}, {"citation": "<em>Bao Zunpeng xian sheng ji nian lun wen ji </em>[\u5305\u9075\u5f6d\u5148\u751f\u7d00\u5ff5\u8ad6\u6587\u96c6 = Essays on a Symposium in Memory of (Bao Zunpeng)]. Taibei: Guo li zhong yang tu shu guan \u570b\u7acb\u4e2d\u592e\u5716\u66f8\u9928, \u6c11\u570b 60 [1971].", "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 250, illus. B", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Weisberg,  Gabriel P. and H. W. 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