id: 150025 accession number: 1980.24 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.24 updated: 2025-08-07 23:34:18.722000 Caparisoned Elephant, c. 1000s. China, Liao dynasty (916-1125). Gilt bronze; overall: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.24 title: Caparisoned Elephant title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1000s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1100 current location: 241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Liao dynasty (916-1125) technique: gilt bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Liao Dynasty type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Musuem of Art) date: 1980 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1980– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Christie's London. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art. 16 April 1980. page number: Lot 59 url: Lee, Sherman E. β€œThe Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219. page number: Reproduced: p. 205; Mentioned: p. 218, no. 285 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.24/1980.24_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.24/1980.24_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.24/1980.24_full.tif