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Frieze Fragment with Chariot Procession

Frieze Fragment with Chariot Procession

100s CE
(25–220 CE)
stone carved in low relief with engraved detail
Overall: 48.3 x 166.4 x 13.3 cm (19 x 65 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1985.73
Location: not on view

Description

The frieze shows a procession of horse-drawn chariots passing through terrain animated with wild animals and a monkey climbing a tree. The border of swirling clouds above conveys associations with heaven or the remote land of immortals in the high mountains.

Comparable in style with the stone reliefs of the Wu Family shrines, this stone may have been originally carved for a local Eastern Han dynasty family tomb of similar status.

To take a rubbing of the frieze, a moistened sheet of paper is laid over the slab and tamped with an ink pad that then darkens the raised areas, leaving concave sections and incised lines blank.
  • at least by 1941–?
    C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], Paris, France, and New York, NY
    J.T. Tai 戴福保 [1910–1992]
    3 June 1985
    (Sotheby's, New York, NY. Important Chinese Sculpture Sold for the Benefit of the J.T. Tai Foundation, 3 June 1985 sale, lot 30)
    1985
    (J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1985-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    Provenance Footnotes
    1 Listed for sale in "An Exhibition of Chinese Stone Sculpture" at C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY (November 1, 1941-April 30, 1942) with a sale price of $3,000.
  • C.T. Loo, Inc. Exhibition of Chinese Arts; Special Sale. New York: C.T. Loo & Co, 1941. Mentioned: cat. no. 949; Reproduced: cat. no. 949 [unpaginated]
    Sotheby's, New York. Important Chinese Sculpture Sold for the Benefit of the J.T. Tai Foundation. 3 June 1985. lot 30
    Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 73, no. 2, 1986, pp. 26–71. Reproduced and mentioned: cover, and p. 71, no. 201 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 13 archive.org
  • From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-November 14, 2021).
    The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).
    An Exhibition of Chinese Stone Sculpture. C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY (November 1, 1941-April 30, 1942).
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