id: 156159 accession number: 1991.8 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.8 updated: 2025-02-09 04:47:23.490000 Shallow Basin Supported by a Bird (Bian), early 400s BCE. China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Bronze inlaid with powdered malachite and azurite ; overall: 23.3 cm (9 3/16 in.); diameter of base: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1991.8 title: Shallow Basin Supported by a Bird (Bian) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 400s BCE creation date earliest: -500 creation date latest: -475 current location: 241A Arts of Ancient China creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) technique: bronze inlaid with powdered malachite and azurite department: Chinese Art collection: China - Zhou Dynasty type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 23.3 cm (9 3/16 in.); Diameter of base: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1991 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1991– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wilson, J. Keith. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 126 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 “Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art II: Departments of Asian Art: Supplement.” The Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1059 (1991): 417–24. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 418, fig. V url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/884779 "Chinese Antiquities in The Cleveland Museum of Art," Arts of China 75 (Nov. 1991): 54. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: p. 42 url: Wilson, J. Keith. "A Recently Acquired Archaic Sculptural Bronze." Oriental Art, v. 38 (1992). page number: url: Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347. page number: Reproduced: p. 292; Mentioned: p. 292-96, 346 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.8/1991.8_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.8/1991.8_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.8/1991.8_full.tif