Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou)
500s
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Monster Face: Door Ring Holder (Pushou), 500s. China, Henan province, Northern Dynasties period (386-581). Gilt bronze; overall: 13.6 x 20 cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.731 Three rivet holes (one on the forehead and one by each limb) were used to nail the mask onto a door.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13.6 x 20 cm (5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1930.731
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture, Images of the Mind, <em>Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the Tʻang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906)</em>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938)., <em>Golden Gate International Expositions</em>. San Francisco, CA (1939)., <em>Art in Asia and the West</em>. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (October 28-December 1, 1957)., <em>Masks: The Many Faces of Man</em>. The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (February 11-April 5,1959).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 241B Arts of Ancient China
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