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Taotie (Ogre Mask)

饕餮

c. 1200–1050 BC

China, Shang dynasty

(c.1600-c.1046 BC)

Marble

Overall: 8.6 x 13.5 cm (3 3/8 x 5 5/16 in.)

Anonymous Gift 1952.585

Location

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Provenance

?–1952

C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art by exchange

1952–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

“Chinese Art Recently Acquired by American Museums.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 7 (1953): 84–86. Mentioned: p. 84, fig. 7; Reproduced: fig. 7 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Carved Jades.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 4 (April 1954): 67–71. Mentioned: p. 67; Reproduced: p. 71 www.jstor.org

Consten, Eleanor von Erdberg. Das Alte China. Stuttgart: G. Kilpper, 1958. Reproduced: pl. 18

Zheng, Dekun. Archaeology in China. Cambridge [England]: W. Heffer, 1960. Reproduced: vol. 2 Shang Dynasty, pl. 11C

Tan, Danjiong [T'an Tan-ch'iung] 譚旦冏. Tao tie wen de gou cheng [饕餮紋的構成 = The formation of teh T'ao-t'ieh motif]. Taibei: Zhongyang yan jiu yuan li shi yu yan yan jiu suo 中央研究院歷史語言研究所, 1960. Reproduced: Pl. 1A, p. 299

Na, Zhiliang 那志良. Yu qi tong shi 玉器通釋. Taibei: Na Zhiliang, 1970. Reproduced: pl. 20A, p. 298

Bao Zunpeng xian sheng ji nian lun wen ji [包遵彭先生紀念論文集 = Essays on a symposium in memory of late Pao Tsun-p'êng]. Taibei: Guo li zhong yang tu shu guan 國立中央圖書館, 民國60 [1971]. Reproduced: p. 250

Wilson, J. Keith. "Lithic Art in the Bronze Age: A Jade Dagger-Axe." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 1 (1990): 2-35. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 27 www.jstor.org

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饕餮

China, Shang dynasty

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