id: 147011 accession number: 1972.44 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.44 updated: 2022-02-18 10:01:57.083000 Cylindrical Container with Cover (Lian), 100 BC-100 AD. China, Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). Gilt bronze with openwork and chased designs; diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.); overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1972.44 title: Cylindrical Container with Cover (Lian) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100 BC-100 AD creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: 100 current location: 241B Arts of Ancient China creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) technique: gilt bronze with openwork and chased designs department: Chinese Art collection: China - Tang Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.); Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 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 (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1972- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This magnificent gilded bronze vessel with openwork decoration shows all kinds of fabulous creatures, real and imaginary, chasing each other among swirling scrolls. There is an emphasis on the unbroken rhythms of movement, rather than the ferocity of animals in combat. Cylindrical bronze vessels in this shape, called lian, were often used as cosmetic boxes. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1972.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 60, no. 3, 1973, pp. 63–115. page number: Mentioned: p. 115, no. 309 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.44/1972.44_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.44/1972.44_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.44/1972.44_full.tif