Tripod Container with Dragon-Head Handle (Zhadou)
500s
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Tripod Container with Dragon-Head Handle (Zhadou), 500s. China, Southern and Northern Dynasties period (386-589). Bronze; overall: 22.8 cm (9 in.); diameter of mouth with rim: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.214
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.8 cm (9 in.); Diameter of mouth with rim: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1983.214
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1983, Images of the Mind, Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia, CMA 1984: "Year in Review 1983," Bull., LXXI (Feb. 1984), no. 269, p. 79, repr. p. 44<br>CMA 1990: "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia," Bull., 77 (October 1990), cat. #11, p. 315, repr. p. 315
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 241B Arts of Ancient China
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