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"tombstone": "Hu (Jar) (\u58fa), 481\u2013221 BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770\u2013256 BCE), Warring States period (475\u2013221 BCE). Bronze; overall: 25.5 cm (10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1975.62",
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"title": "Hu (Jar)",
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"description": "Chinesische Kunst: zweihundert Hauptwerke der Ausstellung der Gesellschaft fu\u0308r Ostasiatische Kunst [Chinese art; two hundred main works from the exhibition of the Society for East Asian Art]. Der Preussischen Akademie der Ku\u0308nste [Prussian Academy of Arts], Berlin, Germany (1929).",
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"description": "Ancient Chinese bronzes from the Stoclet and Wesse\u0301n Collections. Eskenazi Ltd., London, England (June 11-July 12, 1975).",
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"description": "Adolphe Stoclet [1871\u20131949], Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Belgium",
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"description": "The hunting scenes in flat, low relief on this vessel are among the earliest pictorial scenes in Chinese art, dating from the beginning of the Late Zhou period (481\u2013221 BC).
There are six horizontal bands of low relief designs across the body of the vessel. Each is composed of repeating motifs. The short slightly flaring neck has a narrow band of plait pattern, below which is a vivid hunting scene. The hunter holding a long spear and a sword faces off with a feline covered in circle patterns.
The main body of the vessel is decorated with two wide bands of interlacing dragons, separated by a band with another hunting scene. This hunter faces two horned beasts whose rear leg has been pierced by a spear.
The repeating pattern in the lowest band features two long-legged birds and a small fish.",
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"citation": "d'Ardenne de Tizac, H. La sculpture chinoise. Paris: G. Van Oest, 1931.",
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"citation": "Umehara, Sueji \u6885\u539f\u672b\u6cbb. O\u0304Bei shu\u0304cho Shina kodo\u0304 seika [\u6b50\u7c73\u8490\u5132\u652f\u90a3\u53e4\u9285\u7cbe\u83ef = Selected relics of ancient Chinese bronzes from collections in Europe and America]. O\u0304saka: Yamanaka Sho\u0304kai, 1933.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: vol. III, pl. 212",
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"citation": "Vignier, Charles. Notes ine\u0301dites, \"l'Exposition de Bronzes Chinois,\" Paris, Muse\u0301e de l'Orangerie, 1934. Revue des arts asiatiques vol. VIII, no. III.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. XLII",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Umehara, Sueji \u6885\u539f\u672b\u6cbb. Sengoku shiki do\u0302ki no kenkyu [\u6230\u570b\u5f0f\u9285\u5668\u306e\u7814\u7a76 = E\u0301tude des bronzes des royaumes combattants]. Kyo\u0302to: To\u0302ho\u0302 bunka gakuin Kyo\u0302to kenkyu\u0302jo, 1936.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Pls. 92 and 94",
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"citation": "Karlgren, Bernhard. \"New Studies on Chinese Bronzes.\" Bulletin, vol. 9 Stockholm, 1937.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. LIX, 2 and LX, 2",
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"citation": "Rong, Geng \u5bb9\u5e9a [Jung Keng]. Shang Zhou yi qi tong kao [\u5546\u5468\u5f5d\u5668\u901a\u8003 = The Bronzes of Shang and Chou]. [Beiping]: Hafo Yanjing xue she, 1941.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Pl. 400",
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"citation": "Sire\u0301n, Osvald. Kinas konst under tre a\u030artusenden. Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 1942.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 48-C",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Visser, H. F. E. Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium. Amsterdam: \"De Spieghel\" Pub. Co, 1948.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 27, no. 29",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Weber, Charles D. \u201cChinese Pictorial Bronze Vessels of the Late Chou Period. Part III.\u201d Artibus Asiae 29, no. 2/3 (1967): 115\u2013192.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1975.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31\u201371.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 177, pp. 33, 71; Reproduced: no. 177, p. 55",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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