id: 156159
accession number: 1991.8
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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)
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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
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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
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measurements: Overall: 23.3 cm (9 3/16 in.); Diameter of base: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1991
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1991–
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992.
page number: p. 42
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Wilson, J. Keith. "A Recently Acquired Archaic Sculptural Bronze." Oriental Art, v. 38 (1992).
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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
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