id: 130939 accession number: 1953.628 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.628 updated: 2025-07-08 11:27:07.107000 Amulet in the Form of a Seated Figure with Bovine Head, c. 4700–2920 BCE. Northeast China, Neolithic period, probably Hongshan culture (4700–2920 BCE). Jade (nephrite); 14.6 x 6 x 4.1 cm (5 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Severance A. Millikin, 1953.628 title: Amulet in the Form of a Seated Figure with Bovine Head title in original language: 牛首玉人 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 4700–2920 BCE creation date earliest: -4710 creation date latest: -2910 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: Gift of Severance A. Millikin copyright: --- culture: Northeast China, Neolithic period, probably Hongshan culture (4700–2920 BCE) technique: jade (nephrite) department: Chinese Art collection: China - Neolithic type: Jade find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: 14.6 x 6 x 4.1 cm (5 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: There are two paper labels on the back of the jade pendant: one partial label with Chinese characters and one with the typed number "150". translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Primitive to Contemporary Sculpture opening date: 1956-09-06T04:00:00 Primitive to Contemporary Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 6-October 31, 1956). title: Chinese Jade opening date: 1962-11-30T05:00:00 Chinese Jade. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (November 30, 1962-February 3, 1963). 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: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE John L. Severance [1863–1936], Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: Severance A. Millikin [1895–1985], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Schamenendarstellungen," Asia Major 1, 1 (1944): p. 62. page number: url: Lee, Sherman E. “More Early Chinese Jades.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 41, no. 10, 1954, pp. 215–217. page number: Mentioned: pp. 215-217; Reproduced: fig. 1 (line drawing) url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141999 Consten, Eleanor von Erdberg. Das Alte China. Stuttgart: G. Kilpper, 1958. page number: Mentioned: pp. 78, 244; Reproduced: pl. 43 url: Chinese Jade. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania [Museum], 1962. page number: no. 150 url: Salmony, Alfred. Chinese Jade; Through the Wei Dynasty. New York: Ronald Press, 1963. page number: pp. 218–219, 227, pl. 35:4 url: Chêng Tê-K'un. “Some Standing Jade Figurines of the Shang-Chou Period.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 28, no. 1, 1966, pp. 39–52. page number: Mentioned: pp. 48–49; Reproduced: fig. 10 url: www.jstor.org/stable/3249315 Hansford, S. Howard. Chinese Carved Jades. London: Faber, 1968. page number: Reproduced: pp. 83–85, pl. 56 url: Froncek, Thomas, and Hugh Honour. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1969. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 69 url: Erickson, Ernest, Jan Wirgin, and Ulf Abel. The Ernest Erickson collection in Swedish museums. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1989. page number: pp. 10–11 url: Forsyth, Angus. "Five Chinese Jade Figures: Study of the Development of Sculptural Form in Hongshan Neolithic Jade Working." Orientations, 21, 5 (1990), pp. 54–63. page number: Reproduced: p. 60, figs. 8-8b url: Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 8 (1994): 270–347. page number: Reproduced: p. 275; Mentioned: pp. 275, 277, 346 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465 Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 22–23 url: Chung, Anita. "A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee." Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009). page number: Reproduced: p. 29, fig. 2 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 12–13 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.628/1953.628_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.628/1953.628_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.628/1953.628_full.tif