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"title": "Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou)",
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
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"description": "Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the T\u02bbang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).",
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"description": "said to be from Sung-Shan in Honan [Henan] Province, China",
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"Ku\u0308mmel, Otto. Jo\u0308rg Tru\u0308bner zum Geda\u0308chtnis. Ergebnisse seiner letzten chinesischen Reisen. Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. Mentioned p. 112, Tafel 57: \"Angeblich auf dem Sung-shan, Honan, ausgegraben.\"
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"date": "after 1925\u2013by 1930",
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"did_you_know": "Three rivet holes (one on the forehead and one by each limb) were used to nail the mask onto a door.",
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"description": "This gilt bronze Door Ring Holder is in the form of a monster head with curving horns, protruding eyes, three-clawed paws, curling beard, and flame-shaped hair. The tongue dangles from the mouth, in which the creature originally grasped a ring. While it had a practical function as a door knocker, the intimidating form could also frighten away both intruders and evil spirits.",
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard C. \u201cTwo Chinese Bronzes.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (April 1931): 66\u201373.",
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"citation": "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.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. E17",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145, fig. no. 170",
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"citation": "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"
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"citation": "Christie, Anthony. Chinese Mythology. London: Hamlyn, 1968.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 106",
"url": ""
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Bao Zunpeng xian sheng ji nian lun wen ji [\u5305\u9075\u5f6d\u5148\u751f\u7d00\u5ff5\u8ad6\u6587\u96c6 = Essays on a Symposium in Memory of (Bao Zunpeng)]. Taibei: Guo li zhong yang tu shu guan \u570b\u7acb\u4e2d\u592e\u5716\u66f8\u9928, \u6c11\u570b 60 [1971].",
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"citation": "Weisberg, Gabriel P. and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.",
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"citation": "Pearlstein, Elinor. \u201cPictorial Stones from Chinese Tombs.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 9 (1984): 302\u2013331.",
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