Mat Weight in the Form of a Bear
202 BC–AD 9
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Mat Weight in the Form of a Bear, 202 BC–AD 9. China, Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9). Gilt bronze; overall: 15.7 x 14.6 x 17.3 cm (6 3/16 x 5 3/4 x 6 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1994.203 Bear imagery, which symbolized heroic power, was particularly popular during the Han dynasty.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.7 x 14.6 x 17.3 cm (6 3/16 x 5 3/4 x 6 13/16 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1994.203
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Recarving China's Past: The Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines", A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China , <em>Chinesische Kunst: zweihundert Hauptwerke der Ausstellung der Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst </em>[Chinese art; two hundred main works from the exhibition of the Society for East Asian Art]. Der Preussischen Akademie der Künste [Prussian Academy of Arts], Berlin, Germany (1929).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 241B Arts of Ancient China
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