id: 148339 accession number: 1975.62 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.62 updated: Hu (Jar), 481–221 BC. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (771-256 BC), Warring States period (475-221 BC). Bronze; overall: 25.5 cm (10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.62 title: Hu (Jar) title in original language: 壺 series: series in original language: creation date: 481–221 BC creation date earliest: -481 creation date latest: -221 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (771-256 BC), Warring States period (475-221 BC) technique: bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Zhou Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 25.5 cm (10 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinesische Kunst: zweihundert Hauptwerke der Ausstellung der Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst [Chinese art; two hundred main works from the exhibition of the Society for East Asian Art]. Der Preussischen Akademie der Künste [Prussian Academy of Arts], Berlin, Germany (1929). * Bronzes Chinois. Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, France (May-June 1934). * International Exhibition of Chinese Art. Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England (November 1935-March 1936). * Ancient Chinese bronzes from the Stoclet and Wessén Collections. Eskenazi Ltd., London, England (June 11-July 12, 1975). --- PROVENANCE Adolphe Stoclet [1871–1949], Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Belgium date: ? by 1929–1949 footnotes: *
1929 Chinesische Kunst  exhibition catalogue, pl. 31, lists its owner  as "Herr A. Stoclet, Brüssels."
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citations: (J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1975 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1975– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: On the vessel’s shoulders are applied taotie masks from which stem vertical loops for holding the vessel possibly with a rope. digital description: wall 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 (481–221 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936. London: Faber and Faber, 1936. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 166 url: Sirén, Osvald. A History of Early Chinese Art. London: E. Benn, Limited, 1929. page number: Reproduced: pl. 101 url: Kümmel, Otto. Chinesische Kunst; zweihundert Hauptwerke der Ausstellung der Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst in der Preussischen Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1929, herausgegeben von Otto Kümmel. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 21 and pl. XXXI url: d'Ardenne de Tizac, H. La sculpture chinoise. Paris: G. Van Oest, 1931. page number: Reproduced: pl. XXXIII url: Umehara, Sueji 梅原末治. ŌBei shūcho Shina kodō seika [歐米蒐儲支那古銅精華 = Selected relics of ancient Chinese bronzes from collections in Europe and America]. Ōsaka: Yamanaka Shōkai, 1933. page number: Reproduced: vol. III, pl. 212 url: Salles, Georges, and Madeleine David. Bronzes chinois des dynasties Tcheou, Tsʻin & Han. Paris, France: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1934. page number: cat. no. 397 url: Vignier, Charles. Notes inédites, "l'Exposition de Bronzes Chinois," Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1934. Revue des arts asiatiques vol. VIII, no. III. page number: Reproduced: pl. XLII url: Umehara, Sueji 梅原末治. Sengoku shiki dôki no kenkyu [戰國式銅器の研究 = Étude des bronzes des royaumes combattants]. Kyôto: Tôhô bunka gakuin Kyôto kenkyûjo, 1936. page number: Reproduced: Pls. 92 and 94 url: Karlgren, Bernhard. "New Studies on Chinese Bronzes." Bulletin, vol. 9 Stockholm, 1937. page number: Reproduced: pl. LIX, 2 and LX, 2 url: Rong, Geng 容庚 [Jung Keng]. Shang Zhou yi qi tong kao [商周彝器通考 = The Bronzes of Shang and Chou]. [Beiping]: Hafo Yanjing xue she, 1941. page number: Reproduced: Pl. 400 url: Sirén, Osvald. Kinas konst under tre årtusenden. Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 1942. page number: Reproduced: pl. 48-C url: 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: Weber, Charles D. “Chinese Pictorial Bronze Vessels of the Late Chou Period. Part III.” Artibus Asiae 29, no. 2/3 (1967): 115–192. page number: Reproduced: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3250272 Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71. page number: Mentioned: no. 177, pp. 33, 71; Reproduced: no. 177, p. 55 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624 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. 326 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n346 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24 Eskenazi, Giuseppe, and Hajni Elias. A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi. London, England: Scala, 2012. page number: Mentioned: p. 32; Reproduced: p. 33 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.62/1975.62_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.62/1975.62_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.62/1975.62_full.tif