id: 117940 accession number: 1938.9 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.9 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:35.654000 Cranes and Serpents, 475–221 BCE. China, reportedly from Hunan province, Changsha, Warring States period (475–221 BCE), State of Chu (c. 1046–223 BCE). Lacquered wood with polychromy; overall: 132.1 x 124.5 cm (52 x 49 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.9 title: Cranes and Serpents title in original language: 蛇座鳳鳥鼓架 series: series in original language: creation date: 475–221 BCE creation date earliest: -475 creation date latest: -221 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, reportedly from Hunan province, Changsha, Warring States period (475–221 BCE), State of Chu (c. 1046–223 BCE) technique: lacquered wood with polychromy department: Chinese Art collection: China - Zhou Dynasty type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 132.1 x 124.5 cm (52 x 49 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Survey of Early Chinese Art. Yamanaka & Co., New York, NY (January 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Mr. Umekichi Asano [1877-1960], Ōsaka, Japan) date: 1934 or later-before 1938 footnotes: citations: (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1938 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1938- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Umehara Sueji 梅原末治 and Mizuno Seiichi 水野清一. "Wooden Cranes and Snakes, decorated with Lacquer, said to have been discovered in Chang-sha, China" [傳長沙出土の漆畫雙鶴雙蛇に就いて]. Bijutsu Kenkyū [美術硏究 = Journal of the Japanese Art History Society] no. 72 (December 1937), pp. 487-491. page number: Reproduced: pp. 489, 490, pl. 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Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 05, September/October 2013 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-05/page/14 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.9/1938.9_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.9/1938.9_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.9/1938.9_full.tif