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Taotie (Ogre Mask)

Taotie (Ogre Mask)

c. 1200–1050 BCE
(c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE)
Overall: 8.6 x 13.5 cm (3 3/8 x 5 5/16 in.)
Location: not on view
  • 1952–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “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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