id: 98897 accession number: 1918.560.1.h share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.560.1.h updated: 2023-08-23 18:24:33.572000 Ceremonial Uniform: Front Metal Plate, 1644–1911. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Metal (brass?); lined in blue silk; overall: 14.6 x 14.6 x 2.9 cm (5 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1918.560.1.h title: Ceremonial Uniform: Front Metal Plate title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1644–1911 creation date earliest: 1644 creation date latest: 1911 current location: creditline: General Income Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: metal (brass?); lined in blue silk department: Chinese Art collection: China - Qing Dynasty type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 14.6 x 14.6 x 2.9 cm (5 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Korean Pottery, a Few Textiles, and Paintings (Gallery X). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 21-October 3, 1921). --- PROVENANCE (Acquired by Langdon Warner in Korea, late 1916. Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: late 1916-1918 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1918-present date: 1918- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fales, William E. S. "Chinese Armor." The Collector 3, no. 18 (1892). (In Trumble, Alfred. The Collector. New York City: Alfred Trumble, 1889.) page number: p. 285 url: Grancsay, Stephen V. "The George C. Stone Bequest: Chinese and Malayan Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 32, no. 6 (1937). page number: p. 143-148 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3255102 Bullock, Randolph. "Oriental Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 5, no. 6 (1947). page number: p. 169-171 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3258117 Nickel, Helmut. Warriors and Worthies; Arms and Armor Through the Ages. New York: Atheneum, 1969. page number: p. 97-98 url: Twitchett, Denis Crispin, and John King Fairbank. 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