Raft Cup
1345
Zhu Bishan
Zhu Bishan (Chinese, c. 1300-aft 1362)
Chinese Art
Raft Cup, 1345. Attributed to Zhu Bishan (Chinese, c. 1300-aft 1362). Hammered silver soldered together, with chased decoration; overall: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1977.7 The traditional understanding of the silver vessel 's function is that it was supposed to hold wine.
- Maker/Artist
- Zhu Bishan
- Classification
- Silver
- Formatted Medium
- hammered silver soldered together, with chased decoration
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed 碧山 and dated 乙酉年 (1345) Inscription: The inscription in seal script style (zhuanshu) reads: Raft cup, made in the yiyou year of Zhizheng [1345], Whoso wishes to reach the Milky Way is obstructed by the sky; Once there was a man, restless and valiant, who penetrated into the silver sea. Alas! Why did he not seek for some embroidery from the celestial loom? He only brought back in his arms a slab of stone used to prop up the loom.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1977.7
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1977, Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China, All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c, <em>Exhibition of Chinese Art</em>. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, UK (1915)., <em>International Exhibition of Chinese Art</em>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (1935-36)., <em>La Decouverte de l'Asie: Hommage a René Grousset</em>. Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France (1954).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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