{"data": {"id": 151374, "accession_number": "1983.214", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Tripod Container with Dragon-Head Handle (Zhadou), 500s. China, Southern and Northern Dynasties period (386-589). Bronze; overall: 22.8 cm (9 in.); diameter of mouth with rim: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1983.214", "current_location": "241B Arts of Ancient China", "title": "Tripod Container with Dragon-Head Handle (Zhadou)", "creation_date": "500s", "creation_date_earliest": 500, "creation_date_latest": 600, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Southern and Northern Dynasties period (386-589)"], "technique": "bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Southern Dynasties", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Overall: 22.8 cm (9 in.); Diameter of mouth with rim: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.228, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "diameter of mouth with rim": {"width": 0.155, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 309669, "title": "The Year in Review for 1983", "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-02-22T05:00:00"}, {"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"}, {"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"}], "legacy": [{"description": "CMA 1984: \"Year in Review 1983,\" Bull., LXXI (Feb. 1984), no. 269, p. 79, repr. p. 44", "opening_date": "1984-02-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA 1990: \"Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia,\" Bull., 77 (October 1990), cat. #11, p. 315, repr. p. 315", "opening_date": "1990-10-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, Sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings, Wednesday, December 7, 1983, lot 63)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "December 7, 1983", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1983\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The tripod is supported by three splayed legs issuing from mouths of lion heads and ending in pawed feet.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This dragon, winged chimera (<a href=\"http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1980.184\">CMA 1980.184</a>), and grotesque monster's face (<a href=\"http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.731\">CMA 1930.731</a>) exhibit uninhibited imagination in the representation of fantastic animals--all are full of energy, vigor, and magical power. Whether as purely sculptural forms or decorative elements of utilitarian vessels, they are characterized by a sensitive modeling of dynamic forms with the typical Chinese elegance of line.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60749409"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1983.214-tripod-container-wit"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. <em>F</em>i<em>ne Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings</em>. 7 December 1983. Sale 5133.", "page_number": "Lot 63", "url": ""}, {"citation": "\"Year in Review for 1983.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>71, no. 2 (February, 1984): 38-79.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 44, no. 269", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848"}, {"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. \"Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 11, p. 315", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.214", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.214/1983.214_web.jpg", "width": "1093", "height": "893", "filesize": "79274", "filename": "1983.214_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.214/1983.214_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2777", "filesize": "730296", "filename": "1983.214_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.214/1983.214_full.tif", "width": "6115", "height": "4996", "filesize": "91680340", "filename": "1983.214_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.214/1983.214_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1039", "height": "893", "filesize": "69517"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.214/1983.214_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2923", "filesize": "737860"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.214/1983.214_alt0_full.tif", "width": "6091", "height": "5238", "filesize": "95744040"}, "date_created": "2012-08-31T13:01:11", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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