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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.)

John L. Severance Fund 1994.203

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241B Arts of Ancient China

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Bear imagery, which symbolized heroic power, was particularly popular during the Han dynasty.

Description

The bear imagery was particularly popular during the Han dynasty and was a metaphor of heroic power. This heavy, solid bear was probably used as a mat weight; other small squatting bears often served as the legs of vessels.

Provenance

Adolphe Stoclet [1871–1949], Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Belgium, to his daughter Raymonde Feron-Stoclet

Mme. Raymonde Feron-Stoclet [1897–1963], Brussels, Belgium, to her son Denis Feron

?–1994

Denis Lucien Émile Feron [1928–2015], Hartford, IL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1994–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Wilson, J. Keith. "Party Animal" The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine, October 1995, pp. 8–9. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8–9

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 32–33

Cox, Daniel J., and Rebecca L. Grambo. Bear: A Celebration of Power and Beauty. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 2000. p. 20

Liu, Cary Y., Michael Nylan, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Naomi Noble Richard, Michael Loewe, and Susan L. Beningson. Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines". Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2005. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 47, p. 417

Luhrs, Kathleen. "Calendar." Antiques (Oct 2006): p. 92.

Wang, Michelle C., Guolong Lai, Roel Sterckx, and Eugene Yuejin Wang. A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China. Boston, MA: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2006. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 5, pp. 87–88

Lawton, Thomas. "The Stoclets: Their Milieu and Their Collection." Orientations 44.1 (January/February 2013): pp. 68–73. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 72, fig 7

Exhibition history

Recarving China's Past: The Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines". Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (March 4-June 26, 2005).

A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China . Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (organizer) (October 4, 2006-January 14, 2007).

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Mat Weight in the Form of a Bear

China, Western Han dynasty

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