The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 11, 2022

Figure with Sword

4th-3rd Century BC

China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (771-256 BC), Warring States period

(475-221 BC)

Wood with traces of polychromy

Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.12

Location

not on view

Citations
Art News, January 15, 1938, p. 12. p. 12
Consten, Eleanor von Erdberg. Das Alte China. Stuttgart: G. Kilpper, 1958. Reproduced: pl. 66
Sotheby's, New York. Important Chinese Sculpture Sold for the Benefit of the J.T. Tai Foundation. 3 June 1985. Mentioned: Lot 26 (comparative material)
Exhibition history

Donald Jenkins, Masterworks in Wood: China and Japan (exh. cat., New York, Asia House Gallery and Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, 1976), pl. 4

Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (organizer) (November 4-December 5, 1976); Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (January 13-March 27, 1977).

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