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"tombstone": "Kneeling Winged Monster (\u9b3c\u795e), 550\u201377. China, Hebei province, northern Xiangtangshan caves, North cave, Northern Qi dynasty (550-577). Limestone; overall: 75 x 63.6 cm (29 1/2 x 25 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1957.360",
"current_location": "241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures",
"title": "Kneeling Winged Monster",
"title_in_original_language": "\u9b3c\u795e",
"creation_date": "550\u201377",
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"department": "Chinese Art",
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"measurements": "Overall: 75 x 63.6 cm (29 1/2 x 25 1/16 in.)",
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"id": 302145,
"title": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture",
"description": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-09-24T04:00:00"
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"title": "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Xiangtangshan",
"description": "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Xiangtangshan. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (September 30, 2010-January 16, 2011); National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (February 26-July 31, 2011); Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (September 10, 2011-January 8, 2012); San Diego Museum of Art (February 18-July 22, 2012).",
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}
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"description": "(Frank Caro [1904\u20131980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "The hunched monster has three-fingered hands, four square teeth in center of its mouth, and two pairs of pointed teeth on either side.",
"description": "This kneeling monster from the cave-temple complex at Xiangtangshan was originally placed below some wall niches on the perimeter. With its grotesque face and body, it is among the most imaginative sculptures of the period.",
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"citation": "Mizuno, Seiichi \u6c34\u91ce\u6e05\u4e00 and Toshio Nagahiro \u9577\u5ee3\u654f\u96c4. The Buddhist Cave-Temples of Hsiang-T'ang-Ssu on the Frontier of Honan and Hopei. Kyoto: Academy of Oriental Culture, Kyoto Institute, 1937.",
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"citation": "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. 817",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n145"
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cEarly Byzantine Silver.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 3, 1958, pp. 35\u201394.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 92",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25142265"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 253, fig. no. 322",
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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.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n274"
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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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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n274"
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"citation": "Weisberg, Gabriel P. and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 308, fig. 12",
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"citation": "Sotheby's, New York. Important Chinese Sculpture Sold for the Benefit of the J.T. Tai Foundation. 3 June 1985.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: Lot 19 (comparative material)",
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"citation": "Sun, Di, editor. Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu [\u4e2d\u56fd\u6d41\u5931\u6d77\u5916\u4f5b\u6559\u9020\u50cf\u603b\u5408\u56fe\u76ee = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections]. Beijing: Wai wen chu ban she, 2005.",
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"citation": "Tsiang, Katherine R., and Richard A. Born. Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan. Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2010.",
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