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Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).", "opening_date": "1983-02-27T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Frank Caro [1904\u20131980], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art by exchange", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131960", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1960\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["413.1960"], "did_you_know": "The vessel shows a band of silkworms and cicadas in two registers.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In ancient China, bronze tripods of the type called <em>ding </em>were made in sets of different sizes to be used in rituals in which grain and meat was offered to the spirits of the ancestors. These bronzes were subsequently both collected items and major scholarly preoccupations in Chinese history. They were prized art treasures that provide source materials for Chinese historiography and antiquity studies. Catalogues of archaic bronzes have been published since the Song dynasty. Scholars studied the bronze inscriptions, typologies, and terminologies, and these studies exerted an impact in the field well before the birth of modern art history and archaeology.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60757072"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1960.288-tripod-cauldron-ding"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Karlgren, B. \"Marginalia on some Bronze Albums.\" <em>BMFEA</em>, 1959, no. 31.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 4a", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review | 1960.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 47, no. 10 (December 1960): 223\u2013254.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 251, no. 38; Reproduced: p. 228, no. 38", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142422"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cFour Ritual Vases,\u201d March 27, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0916"}, {"citation": "Ho, Wai-Kam. \u201cShang and Chou Bronzes.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 7 (September 1964): 175\u2013187.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 177, fig. 2", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152007"}, {"citation": "Wilson, J. 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