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accession number:	1972.39
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Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines, 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Silver with gilt, incised, and chased decoration; diameter: 30.5 cm (12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1972.39

title:				Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines
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creation date:			700s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		799
current location:		239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique:	silver with gilt, incised, and chased decoration
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Silver
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measurements: Diameter: 30.5 cm (12 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1972
	opening date:   1973-02-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

	title:		All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection
	opening date:   1994-11-23T05:00:00
	<i>All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Dayton Art Institute, "Chinese, Gold and Silver from the T'ang Dynasty from American Collections," 11/3/1984-1/6/1984, Dayton; 2/5/1985-4/21/1985, Cooper Hewitt

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PROVENANCE

	David David-Weill, Paris; (Spink and Son, Ltd. London)
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wall description:
Precious Sassanian and Central Asian metalwork had been imported to China as early as the 4th and 5th centuries as a result of wars and prosperous trade along the Silk Road. With the influx of foreign metalworkers to cosmopolitan Tang China, the techniques of sheet metalworking were introduced to the Chinese. This silver vessel demonstrates the effects of such east-west exchanges along the Silk Road. Its decoration with intricate gilt, incised and chased designs against a ring-punched ground is of a particularly high standard.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 333
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n353

	Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 345, fig. 36
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914

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