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Lid

Datelate 4th century B.C.
Object number36.11
Exhibition HistoryClaremont, California, Pomona College, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, 1947. New York, New York, Art Society of America, Art of Eastern Chou Period, 1962. Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 3 - 28, 1965. Cat. no. 11. Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College, Jewetts Arts Center, 25th Anniversary of the Mayling Soong (Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek) Foundation, Chinese Art: Symbols and Images, 1967. New York, New York, Asia Society, Asia House Gallery, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, 1968. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chinese Metalwork, July 12 - Nov. 27, 1988. Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 47 (b&w) Bunker, Emma, The Art of Eastern Chou, 1962, cat. #38 Seattle Art Museum, Engagement Book, 1962 Gift to a City, exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 11 Wellesley College, Jewetts Art Center, Mayling Soong Foundation cat., Chinese Art Symbols and Images, 1967, p.18, #8 Asia Society, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, Max Loehr, 1968, #76, p. 168-9 and p. 16 H. Trubner, Wm. J. Rathbun, C.A. Kaputa, Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum, 1973, p. 137, #78 de Bisscop, N., de Kesel, W. G., Chinese Lakwerk, Holland, 1982, p. 41 Knight, Michael, Early Chinese Metalwork in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1989, no. 14, pp. 30-33, ill. p. 30
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
DimensionsDiam.: 4 3/8 in. Overall h.: 5/8 in.
MediumBronze with silver inlay
Chinese
4th–3rd century BCE
Object number: 49.99
Chinese
4th–3rd century BCE
Object number: 49.101
Belt hook
Chinese
4th–3rd century BCE
Object number: 52.55
Waterdropper with lid
Japanese
Object number: 92.47.156
Waterdropper with lid modelled as a finial
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 92.47.157
Vasudhara (bodhisattva, the Goddess of Prosperity)
Nepalese
15th-16th century
Object number: 78.3
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
early 8th century
Object number: 38.12
Cap for butt of Ge
Chinese
early 5th-late 3rd century B.C.
Object number: 39.25
Bronze Ornament
Chinese
early 8th-mid 3rd century B.C.
Object number: 35.14
Mirror
Chinese
8th century
Object number: 33.108
Ritual vessel
Chinese
17th century
Object number: 92.60
Vase
Chinese
18th century
Object number: SC77.80