Tripod Cauldron (Ding)
1200–1100 BC
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Tripod Cauldron (Ding), 1200–1100 BC. China, Shang dynasty (c.1600-c.1046 BC). Bronze; overall: 14.3 x 12.5 cm (5 5/8 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1960.288 The vessel shows a band of silkworms and cicadas in two registers.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14.3 x 12.5 cm (5 5/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1960.288
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail, <em>The Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 010 Focus Gallery
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