Shoulder Piece for a Gigaku Costume in the Form of a Dragon Head
1200s to early 1300s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Shoulder Piece for a Gigaku Costume in the Form of a Dragon Head, 1200s to early 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Lacquered wood with color and gold; overall: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1979.48
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- lacquered wood with color and gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1979.48
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1979, A Cleveland Bestiary, Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia, <em>Year in Review 1979. The </em>Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-March 9, 1980).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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