id: 137198 accession number: 1962.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.154 updated: 2024-03-26 02:40:21.272000 Jar with Lion-Head Handles, 1300s. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Porcelain with underglaze painted decoration; diameter of mouth: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); overall: 39.4 x 37.5 cm (15 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1962.154 title: Jar with Lion-Head Handles title in original language: 青花雙獅頭罐 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1368 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: porcelain with underglaze painted decoration department: Chinese Art collection: China - Yuan Dynasty type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter of mouth: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); Overall: 39.4 x 37.5 cm (15 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 南 translation: remark: inscription: 宮 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) opening date: 1968-10-02T04:00:00 Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-November 24, 1968). title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-06-20T04:00:00 The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982). title: Printing in Color opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00 Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353 opening date: 2002-10-28T00:00:00 The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 28, 2002-February 16, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 13-July 27, 2003). 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 (J.T. Tai and Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Janus in Limbo.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 50, no. 1, 1963, pp. 3–6. page number: Reproduced: fig. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151927 “Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 17, 1963, pp. 43–65. page number: Reproduced: p. 46, fig. 10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067062 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. 260 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n284 Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: Reproduced: pl. 156 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. 260 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n284 Medley, Margaret. Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware. London: Faber, 1974. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 58, fig. 45b url: Medley, Margaret. The Chinese Potter: A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics. Oxford: Phaidon,1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 183, fig 134 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. 344 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n364 Neils, Jenifer and Sherman E. Lee. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: cat. no. 119 url: Gowing, Lawrence, ed. A History of Art. London: Macmillan, 1983. page number: Reproduced: p. 317 url: Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 351, fig. 48 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press [distributor], 2002. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat no. 193, p. 285; fig. 17, p. 21 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 05, September/October 2013 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 15 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-05/page/14 "Reopening of the Asian Galleries at The Cleveland Museum of Art: An Interview with David Franklin." Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, vol. 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): pp. 60-63 page number: Reproduced: p. 63 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 100 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 221, fig. 6.7; Mentioned: P. 221, 226, 228 url: Gaskin, Steven P. "The David Vases: Considering Serpentine Waves on Yuan Blue-and-White." Orientations 46, no. 4 (May 2015): 81-89. page number: Reproduced: p. 86, figs. 9, 9a. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.154/1962.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.154/1962.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.154/1962.154_full.tif