{"data": {"id": 159200, "accession_number": "1995.385", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Mirror Stand in the Shape of a Djeiran, mid 1600s-early 1900s. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Bronze; overall: 10.6 x 21.2 cm (4 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.385", "current_location": null, "title": "Mirror Stand in the Shape of a Djeiran", "creation_date": "mid 1600s-early 1900s", "creation_date_earliest": 1644, "creation_date_latest": 1911, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)"], "technique": "bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Overall: 10.6 x 21.2 cm (4 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.106, "height_inch": 4, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 0.212, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375, "length": 0.111, "length_inch": 4, "length_inch_fraction": 0.375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 193152, "title": "Circles of Reflection:  The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors", "description": "<i>Circles of Reflection:  The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000); China Institute in America, New York, NY (February 6-June 2, 2002); Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI (December 20, 2003-February 29, 2004).", "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Thomas and Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1995", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1995-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This mirror stand is the in shape of a recumbent <em>djeiran</em>, or Central Asian antelope. Commonly appearing on Sogdian silver from the 600s onward, the djeiran motif migrated via the trade routes to northern China. There, during the Jin and Yuan (1279\u20131368) dynasties, it was very popular and always depicted with the moon supported by clouds. Chinese writers often identify the djeiran as the mythical rhinoceros (<em>xi'niu</em>) that is said to gaze at the moon, or as the cow of Wu \"panting upon seeing the moon.\" When the stand originally held a mirror, the animal would appear to be looking at the moon.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79978452"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1995.385-mirror-stand-in-the"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Chou, Ju-hsi. <em>Circles of reflection: the Carter collection of Chinese bronze mirrors</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. pp. 109, 125", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.385", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.385/1995.385_web.jpg", "width": "1074", "height": "893", "filesize": "572027", "filename": "1995.385_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.385/1995.385_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2828", "filesize": "4931303", "filename": "1995.385_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.385/1995.385_full.tif", "width": "4426", "height": "3682", "filesize": "48899400", "filename": "1995.385_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.385/1995.385_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1074", "height": "893", "filesize": "586283"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.385/1995.385_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2828", "filesize": "4833089"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.385/1995.385_alt0_full.tif", "width": "4426", "height": "3682", "filesize": "48919232"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 159200, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1996-06-03T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1644, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "mid 1600s-early 1900s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:15:01.131000"}}