id: 148339 accession number: 1975.62 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.62 updated: 2025-02-09 03:50:37.909000 Hu (Jar), 481–221 BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE). 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 BCE creation date earliest: -481 creation date latest: -221 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE) 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 * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Bronzes Chinois. Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, France (May-June 1934).", 'opening_date': '1934-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'International Exhibition of Chinese Art. Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England (November 1935-March 1936).', 'opening_date': '1935-11-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Ancient Chinese bronzes from the Stoclet and Wessén Collections. Eskenazi Ltd., London, England (June 11-July 12, 1975).', 'opening_date': '1975-06-11T00:00:00'} --- 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: digital description: wall description: --- 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