The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 17, 2024
Jade Plaque
475–221 BCE
(770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE)
Overall: 20.8 x 8.7 cm (8 3/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
This beautiful pair of late Eastern Zhou openwork jade plaques illustrate a level of creativity and technical achievement that was unequaled before or since. Taking the shape of a pair of fantastic creatures, they are at once tigerlike, rhinolike, and dragonlike. Their strong silhouettes are marked with shallow relief bands, and their subtly swelling embellished surfaces are finished to the same degree on both sides.- ?–1991(James J. Lally, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1991–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cunningham, Michael R. Masterworks of Asian art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: p. 28 - 29
- Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH(January 28-April 26, 1992).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.78.2