{"data": {"id": 121207, "accession_number": "1942.1083", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Textile Ornaments(?): Pair of Phoenixes, c. 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Beaten gold with chased detail; part 1: 12 x 10.4 cm (4 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.); part 2: 13.3 x 10.7 cm (5 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.1083", "current_location": "239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork", "title": "Textile Ornaments(?): Pair of Phoenixes", "creation_date": "c. 700s", "creation_date_earliest": 700, "creation_date_latest": 799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Tang dynasty (618-907)"], "technique": "beaten gold with chased detail", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Part 1: 12 x 10.4 cm (4 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.); Part 2: 13.3 x 10.7 cm (5 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"part 1": {"height": 0.12, "height_inch": 4, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.104, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}, "part 2": {"height": 0.133, "height_inch": 5, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.107, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 445364, "title": "Early Chinese Gold and Silver", "description": "<i>Early Chinese Gold and Silver</i>. China Institute in America, New York, NY (organizer) (October 21, 1971-January 30, 1972).", "opening_date": "1971-10-21T04:00:00"}, {"id": 304550, "title": "A Cleveland Bestiary", "description": "<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).", "opening_date": "1981-10-15T04:00:00"}, {"id": 448467, "title": "China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail", "description": "<i>China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).", "opening_date": "2022-12-10T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Henry Trubner, Arts of the Tang Dynasty (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1957), cat. 305", "opening_date": "1957-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold and Silver (China Institute in America, NY, 1971-72) cat. 52", "opening_date": "1971-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Barbara A. Kathman, A Cleveland Bestiary, CMA Dept. of Art History and Education, Oct. 14-December 9, 1981), fig. 44", "opening_date": "1981-10-14T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Dayton Art Institute, \"Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty from American Collections,\" Showings: 11/3/1984-1/6/1985, Dayton; 2/5/1985-4/21/1985, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY", "opening_date": "1984-11-03T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131942", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1942\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "These two phoenix birds made of thin gold foil have tiny holes all along their edges, suggesting that they were sewn on textiles.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "These two phoenix birds made of thin gold foil have tiny holes all along their edges, suggesting that they were sewn on textiles.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80016985"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1942.1083-textile-ornaments-pa"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 49; Mentioned: p. 64, p. 62", "url": null}, {"citation": "von Spee, Clarissa. \"Art In New Dimensions: Chinese Miniature and Small Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Arts of Asia </em>52, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 117\u2013121.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 120\u2013121, fig. 10", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1083", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1083/1942.1083_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "606", "filesize": "113997", "filename": "1942.1083_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1083/1942.1083_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2290", "filesize": "1163685", "filename": "1942.1083_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1083/1942.1083_full.tif", "width": "8000", "height": "5388", "filesize": "129341308", "filename": "1942.1083_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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