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Bo zhong (suspended bell)

Bo zhong (suspended bell)

771-221 B.C.

The state of Jin (southern Shanxi province) became renowned for clapperless bells. Their foundries developed production techniques using pattern blocks to stamp designs, like the upside-down taotie (monster mask) of this bell.
Cast bronze
15 3/8 x 10 3/4 in. (39.05 x 27.31 cm)
Gift of the Asian Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum and friends, the Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund, and the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, by exchange, to honor Henry Trubner, Senior Curator Emeritus
87.43
location
Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chinese Metalwork, July 12 - Nov. 27, 1988.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective, Dec. 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.
Published ReferencesWilliam Charles White, Tombs of Old Loyang, (1939), p. 65

Knight, Michael. "Early Chinese Metalwork in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1989, no. 11, pp. 20-22, ill. pp. 20-21

"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 157

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