id: 112308 accession number: 1930.731 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.731 updated: 2024-08-08 15:13:09.298000 Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou), 500s. China, Henan province, Northern Dynasties period (386–581 CE). Gilt bronze; overall: 13.6 x 20 cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.731 title: Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou) title in original language: 鋪首 series: series in original language: creation date: 500s creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 599 current location: 241B Arts of Ancient China creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Henan province, Northern Dynasties period (386–581 CE) technique: gilt bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Southern Dynasties type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 13.6 x 20 cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the Tʻang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-10-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Golden Gate International Expositions. San Francisco, CA (1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Art in Asia and the West. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (October 28-December 1, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-10-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masks: The Many Faces of Man. The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (February 11-April 5,1959).', 'opening_date': '2011-02-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE said to be from Sung-Shan in Honan [Henan] Province, China date: footnotes: *
Kümmel, Otto. Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis. Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen. Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. Mentioned p. 112, Tafel 57: "Angeblich auf dem Sung-shan, Honan, ausgegraben."
citations: Jörg Trübner [1903–1930] acquired in China, to his brother-in-law, Edgar Worch date: after 1925–by 1930 footnotes: citations: Edgar Worch [1880–1972], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1930 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1930– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Kümmel, Otto. Jörg Trübner zum Gedächtnis. Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen. Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 57, pp. 112–113 url: Hollis, Howard C. “Two Chinese Bronzes.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (April 1931): 66–73. page number: Reproduced: p. 72 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137378 Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the Tʻang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); An Exhibition Lent by American Collectors and Museums and Shown in Gallery D6 from October 19 Through November 27. 1938. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 334, p. 28 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/147054 Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures. San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. page number: cat. no. 55 url: Morley, Grace. Art in Asia and the West: An Exhibition to Illustrate Varied Aspects of Asian Traditions and Their Importance for Art in the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957. page number: cat. no. 16b url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 816 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n145 Masks: The Many Faces of Man : an Exhibition Presented by the Division of Art and Archaeology of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Canada. Toronto: The Museum, 1959. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. E17 url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Reproduced: p. 145, fig. no. 170 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 249 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n273 Christie, Anthony. Chinese Mythology. London: Hamlyn, 1968. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 249 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n273 Bao Zunpeng xian sheng ji nian lun wen ji [包遵彭先生紀念論文集 = Essays on a Symposium in Memory of (Bao Zunpeng)]. Taibei: Guo li zhong yang tu shu guan 國立中央圖書館, 民國 60 [1971]. page number: Reproduced: p. 250, illus. B url: Weisberg, Gabriel P. and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. page number: cat. no. 101 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 328 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n348 Pearlstein, Elinor. “Pictorial Stones from Chinese Tombs.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 9 (1984): 302–331. page number: Reproduced: p. 308, fig. 11 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159885 Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Reproduced: [p. 10] url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.731/1930.731_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.731/1930.731_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.731/1930.731_full.tif