id: 147003 accession number: 1972.39 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.39 updated: 2025-07-04 11:02:13.828000 Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines, 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Silver with gilt, incised, and chased decoration; diameter: 4.8 x 30.5 cm (1 7/8 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1972.39 title: Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 700s creation date earliest: 700 creation date latest: 799 current location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Tang dynasty (618-907) technique: silver with gilt, incised, and chased decoration department: Chinese Art collection: China - Tang Dynasty type: Silver find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 4.8 x 30.5 cm (1 7/8 x 12 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. 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 The Twain Shall Meet. 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 All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995). title: A Moveable Feast: Food Cultures in China opening date: 2025-03-19T04:00:00 A Moveable Feast: Food Cultures in China. Hong Kong Palace Museum Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (organizer) (March 19-June 18, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Chinese, Gold and Silver from the T'ang Dynasty from American Collections. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (November 3, 1984-January 6, 1984); Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY (February 5-April 21, 1985)", 'opening_date': '1984-11-03T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE David David-Weill [1871–1952] Collection, Paris, France, consigned to Sotheby's London for sale date: ?–1972 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's London, England, An auction of Chinese Bronzes and Objects of Art from the D. David-Weill Collection. February 29, 1972 sale. Lot no. 167. Sold to Spink & Son, Ltd.) date: February 29, 1972 footnotes: citations: (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: February 29–May 3, 1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: May 3, 1972– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Gyllensvärd, Bo. "T'ang, Gold and Silver," Bulletin, Östasiatiska samlingarna (Stockholm, Sweden) no. 29 (1957). page number: figs. 58 J & K, 781, 80q url: Sotheby's, London. The D. David-Weill Collection; early Chinese bronzes; inlaid metalwork, gilt bronzes and silver; jades; sculpture and ceramics. 29 February 1972 sale. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: Lot no. 167 url: Ma, John K. T. "Saleroom News," Arts of Asia 2/3 (May-June 1972), p. 55. page number: 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. 333 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n353 Kelley, Clarence W.. Chinese Gold & Silver in American Collections: Tang Dynasty, A.D. 618-907. Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1984. page number: 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. 345, fig. 36 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 "London." Apollo 95, no. 124 (June 1972), pp. 526–527. page number: Reproduced: fig. 3 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.39/1972.39_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.39/1972.39_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.39/1972.39_full.tif