id:			151373
accession number:	1983.213
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.213
updated:		2025-01-13 13:05:28.748000

Mirror with Xiwangmu, c. 317–400 CE. China, Six Dynasties period (220–589 CE). Bronze; diameter: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1983.213

title:				Mirror with Xiwangmu
title in original language:	西王母鏡
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creation date:			c. 317–400 CE
creation date earliest:		312
creation date latest:		405
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creditline:			The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	China, Six Dynasties period (220–589 CE)
technique:	bronze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Southern Dynasties
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1983
	opening date:   1984-02-22T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

	title:		Mirrors: Art and Symbol
	opening date:   1984-07-03T04:00:00
	<i>Mirrors: Art and Symbol</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).

	title:		Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China
	opening date:   1988-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).

	title:		Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions
	opening date:   1994-10-18T04:00:00
	<i>Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).

	title:		Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation)
	opening date:   2022-05-13T04:00:00
	<i>Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-November 6, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Exhibition of Chinese Mirrors</em>. Chinese Art Society in America, China House, New York, NY (February 2-April 3, 1951).', 'opening_date': '1951-02-02T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull
	date: ?–1983
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	(Sotheby's New York, NY. Important Chinese Works of Art: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull. 6 December 1983 sale, Lot 8, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: December 6, 1983
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1983–
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CITATIONS

	Chinese Art Society of America, and Elizabeth Lyons. <em>An Exhibition of Chinese Mirrors</em>. New York: [The Society], 1951.
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	Bulling, Anneliese Gutkind. <em>The Decoration of Mirrors of the Han Period: A Chronology</em>. Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1960.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 95–96 and pl. 79
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	Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York. <em>Important Chinese Works of Art: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull</em>. 6 December 1983.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: Lot 8
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	Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 2 (1984): 38–79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 258, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 258, p. 62
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848

	Little, Stephen. <em>Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China: the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 12
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	Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 8 (October 1994): 270–347.
	page number: 	cat. no. 29, p. 347
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465

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