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"tombstone": "Wine Vessel (Hu), early 400s BCE. China, Warring States period (475\u2013221 BCE). Bronze with gold inlay; diameter: 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.); diameter of mouth: 10.1 cm (4 in.); overall: 27.6 cm (10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1929.984",
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"title": "Wine Vessel (Hu)",
"creation_date": "early 400s BCE",
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"department": "Chinese Art",
"collection": "China - Zhou Dynasty",
"type": "Metalwork",
"measurements": "Diameter: 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.); Diameter of mouth: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Overall: 27.6 cm (10 7/8 in.)",
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
"description": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
"opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"
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"id": 520038,
"title": "Chinese Art of Late Eastern Chou Dynasty",
"description": "Chinese Art of Late Eastern Chou Dynasty. Chinese Art Society of America, New York, NY (organizer) (November 13-December 11, 1962).",
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"id": 310291,
"title": "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia",
"description": "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990).",
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"description": "Exhibition of Far Eastern Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 19, 1929-January 19, 1930).",
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"description": "Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the T\u02bbang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); An Exhibition Lent by American Collectors and Museums and Shown in Gallery D6 from October 19 Through November 27. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).",
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"description": "Acquired in China for Yamanaka & Company",
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"date": "before 1929",
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"description": "(Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "by 1929",
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"date": "1929\u2013",
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"description": "By the time this wine vessel was cast, bronzes were increasingly losing their ritual significance and becoming symbols of prestige and conspicuous consumption. This globular jar (hu) reflects the splendor and luxury of the time. The jar is decorated with free-flowing scrollwork and interlaced zoomorphic motifs. Cast depressions were first made on the bronze surface and then inlaid with gold. A graceful fluidity is achieved by the many sweeping lines, curves, and tendril-like networks covering the round body.",
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"citation": "Warner, Langdon. \u201cA Chinese Exhibition at Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 56, no. 325 (April 1930): 205\u2013211.",
"page_number": "p. 206",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/864278"
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard C. \u201cTwo Early Chinese Bronzes.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 7 (July 1930): 135\u2013137, 130.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 130",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137316"
},
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"citation": "Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the T\u02bbang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); An Exhibition Lent by American Collectors and Museums and Shown in Gallery D6 from October 19 Through November 27. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,1938.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 187",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \u201cCorrections in Previous Articles on Oriental Objects.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 7 (1945): 141.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 141",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141228"
},
{
"citation": "Bunker, Emmy Cadwalader. The Art of Eastern Chou, 772-221 B.C.: A Loan Exhibition [the China House, Nov. 13-Dec. 15, 1962]. New York, NY: Chinese Art Society of America, 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 47,",
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},
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"citation": "Chen, Mengjia \u9673\u5922\u5bb6, and Michio Matsumaru \u677e\u4e38\u9053\u96c4\u6539. In Shu\u0304 seido\u0304ki bunrui zuroku [\u6bb7\u5468\u9752\u9285\u5668\u5206\u985e\u56f3\u9304 = A corpus of Chinese bronzes in American collections]. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Kyu\u0304ko Shoin, 1977.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. A732, illus. 1047",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Jenny So, \"The Inlaid Bronzes of the Warring States Period,\" in Wen Fong ed., The Great Bronze Age of China. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 98, p. 306",
"url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/107824"
},
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"citation": "So, Jenny F. Bronze Styles of the Eastern Zhou Period. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 6\u20138, 76; Reproduced: pl. 51, p. 29",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Hayashi, Minao \u6797\u5df2\u5948\u592b. In Shu\u0304 seido\u0304ki so\u0304ran \u6bb7\u5468\u9751\u9285\u5668\u7d9c\u89bd. Vol 3. \u6625\u79cb\u6230\u570b\u6642\u4ee3\u9752\u9285\u5668\u306e\u7814\u7a76 [Study of bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Warring States periods]. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Yoshikawa Ko\u0304bunkan, 1989.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: vol. 3, 129",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. \"Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (October 1990): 286\u2013323.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 293, 313",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"
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