id:			111508
accession number:	1929.987
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.987
updated:		2025-03-08 13:06:01.586000

Bull, 618–907. China, Tang dynasty (618–907). Painted earthenware; overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.987

title:				Bull
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			618–907
creation date earliest:		618
creation date latest:		907
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618–907)
technique:	painted earthenware
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Ceramic
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the Month: The Animal and Man
	opening date:   1948-09-29T05:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the Month: The Animal and Man</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 29, 1948-January 10, 1949).

	title:		Meaning of Nature in Chinese Art
	opening date:   1954-04-09T05:00:00
	<i>Meaning of Nature in Chinese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 1, 1954).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Far Eastern Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 13, 1929). Lent by Mr. Chait.', 'opening_date': '1929-12-13T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Sculptural Forms in Terracotta from Chinese Tombs</em>. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (January 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1929
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1929–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Watson, William. <em>Style in the Arts of China</em>. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 83
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	"Chinese Tomb Pottery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>18, no. 3 (March 1931): 49-51
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 51; Reproduced: p. 59
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137370

	<em>Sculptural Forms in Terracotta from Chinese Tombs: January Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Nine</em>. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1939.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 33, pl. 7
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 827
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n146

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 251
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n275

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 251
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n275

	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. 332
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n352

	Watson, William. <em>L'art de l'ancienne Chine</em>. Paris: Mazenod, 1979.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. no. 402, p. 417
	url:		

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