{"data": {"id": 147977, "accession_number": "1974.73", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Food Container (Gui) (\u9f8d\u8033\u7c0b), 600\u2013500 BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770\u2013256 BCE), Spring and Autumn period (770\u2013476 BCE). Bronze; overall: 34.3 x 44.5 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1974.73", "current_location": "241A Arts of Ancient China", "title": "Food Container (Gui)", "title_in_original_language": "\u9f8d\u8033\u7c0b", "creation_date": "600\u2013500 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -600, "creation_date_latest": -500, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770\u2013256 BCE), Spring and Autumn period (770\u2013476 BCE)"], "technique": "bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Zhou Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Overall: 34.3 x 44.5 cm (13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.343, "height_inch": 13, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.445, "width_inch": 17, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 302084, "title": "Year in Review: 1974", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).", "opening_date": "1975-03-11T04:00:00"}, {"id": 214036, "title": "Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America", "description": "<i>Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America</i>. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 10-August 9, 2009).", "opening_date": "2009-02-10T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Hans J\u00fcergen von Lochow [1902\u20131989]", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Frederick M. Mayer [1899\u20131974], New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131974", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, June 25, 1974 sale, lot 219, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->One of pair, the other purchased by John D. Rockefeller the 3rd. It was bequeathed to the Asia Society, New York, in 1979.</div>"], "date": "June 25, 1974", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1974\u2013", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This ritual food vessel likely held grain like rice, millet, or corn in rites for worshipping the ancestors.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Openwork and sculptural designs elaborately transform the silhouette of this <em>gui</em>, a ritual food vessel with a square pedestal. The design exudes motion, exuberance, and baroque characters to a stately vessel form. Lotus-petal openwork encircles the cover, reinforcing the linear rhythms of the undulating wave patterns on the body. Two lively dragons, with eyes and mouth wide open and tongue straight out, are accompanied by two felines to form the arched handles.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756390"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1974.73-food-container-gui"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. <em>The Frederick M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art</em>. 25 June 1974 sale.", "page_number": "Lot 219", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1974.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (1975): 62\u2013103.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 103, cat. no. 176; Reproduced: p. 104 (back cover)", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580"}, {"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. 325", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n345"}, {"citation": "Wang, Haiwen \u738b\u6d77\u6587. \"The Dragon-eared [-handled] Kuei \u9f8d\u8033\u7c0b.\" <em>Gugong bowuyuan yuankan</em> [\u6545\u5bae\u535a\u7269\u9662\u9662\u520a = Palace Museum Journal], 1979, no. 4.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 25 and 32", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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