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Collection Online as of April 16, 2024

Textile Ornament(?): Phoenix

Textile Ornament(?): Phoenix

c. 700s
(618-907)
beaten gold with chased detail
Overall: 13.3 x 10.7 cm (5 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.1083.2
Location: not on view

Description

This phoenix bird made of thin gold foil has tiny holes all along its edges, suggesting that it was sewn onto a textile.
  • ?–1942
    (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1942–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).
    Dayton Art Institute, "Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty from American Collections," Showings: 11/3/1984-1/6/1985, Dayton; 2/5/1985-4/21/1985, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY
    Barbara A. Kathman, A Cleveland Bestiary, CMA Dept. of Art History and Education, Oct. 14-December 9, 1981), fig. 44
    Early Chinese Gold and Silver. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (October 21, 1971-January 30, 1972).
    Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold and Silver (China Institute in America, NY, 1971-72) cat. 52
    Henry Trubner, Arts of the Tang Dynasty (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1957), cat. 305
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