{
"data": {
"id": 138614,
"accession_number": "1962.46",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Pole Top as a Wild Ass, 206 BCE\u2013220 CE. China, Ordos Region, Han dynasty (202 BCE\u2013220 CE). Bronze; overall: 17.8 x 12.4 cm (7 x 4 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1962.46",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Pole Top as a Wild Ass",
"creation_date": "206 BCE\u2013220 CE",
"creation_date_earliest": -206,
"creation_date_latest": 220,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"China, Ordos Region, Han dynasty (202 BCE\u2013220 CE)"
],
"technique": "bronze",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Chinese Art",
"collection": "China - Han Dynasty",
"type": "Sculpture",
"measurements": "Overall: 17.8 x 12.4 cm (7 x 4 7/8 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.178,
"height_inch": 7,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"width": 0.124,
"width_inch": 4,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.875
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 302276,
"title": "Year in Review - 1962",
"description": "Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-10-24T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 300779,
"title": "Juxtapositions",
"description": "Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1965-09-11T04:00:00"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "possibly C. T. Loo(?) \u76e7\u82b9\u9f4b [1880\u20131957]",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": null,
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "?\u20131962",
"sortorder": 2
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1962\u2013",
"sortorder": 3
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": null,
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": null,
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80034684"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1962.46-pole-top-as-a-wild-a"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review 1962.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962): 199\u2013227.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 69, p. 224; Reproduced: no. 69, p. 207",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151915"
},
{
"citation": "\u201cBack Matter.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 7 (1965)",
"page_number": "Reproduced: back cover",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152060"
},
{
"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. 248",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n272"
},
{
"citation": "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. 248",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n272"
},
{
"citation": "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. 328",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n348"
},
{
"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 327, fig. 1",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 11",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n26"
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.46",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.46/1962.46_web.jpg",
"width": "929",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "47148",
"filename": "1962.46_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.46/1962.46_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "3267",
"filesize": "668283",
"filename": "1962.46_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.46/1962.46_full.tif",
"width": "5567",
"height": "5350",
"filesize": "89371900",
"filename": "1962.46_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.46/1962.46_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "887",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "45398"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.46/1962.46_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "3377",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "697558"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.46/1962.46_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "5316",
"height": "5351",
"filesize": "85359744"
},
"date_created": "2012-09-21T15:13:34",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Edward L. Whittemore Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 138614,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1962-02-17T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": -206,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "206 BCE\u2013220 CE",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"Kulan (Wild Ass): Pole Top"
],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:16:39.822000"
}
}