The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 17, 2025

c. 700s

(618-907)

Overall: 13.3 x 10.7 cm (5 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)

This phoenix bird made of thin gold foil has tiny holes all along its edges, suggesting that it was sewn onto a textile.

?–1942
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1942–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Reproduced: p. 49; Mentioned: p. 64, p. 62
von Spee, Clarissa. "Art In New Dimensions: Chinese Miniature and Small Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 52, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 117–121. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 120–121, fig. 10
China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).
Dayton Art Institute, "Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty from American Collections," Showings: 11/3/1984-1/6/1985, Dayton; 2/5/1985-4/21/1985, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY
Barbara A. Kathman, A Cleveland Bestiary, CMA Dept. of Art History and Education, Oct. 14-December 9, 1981), fig. 44
Early Chinese Gold and Silver. China Institute in America, New York, NY (organizer) (October 21, 1971-January 30, 1972).
Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold and Silver (China Institute in America, NY, 1971-72) cat. 52
Henry Trubner, Arts of the Tang Dynasty (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1957), cat. 305
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