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Source Description
Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a symbol common to all changes in nature: cloud vapors, waves, and mountains alike. Here a dragon hovers among sweeping scrolls.
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154507
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Jar (Hu)
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154507
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object
title
Jar (Hu)
description
Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a symbol common to all changes in nature: cloud vapors, waves, and mountains alike. Here a dragon hovers among sweeping scrolls.
date
202 BCE–9 CE
citation
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60759864
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Ceramic
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 48.2 cm (19 in.)
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China, probably Henan province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)
accession
1989.15
Source extras
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earthenware with slip and painted decoration
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Jar (Hu), 202 BCE–9 CE. China, probably Henan province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Earthenware with slip and painted decoration; overall: 48.2 cm (19 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1989.15
collection
China - Han Dynasty
didYouKnow
This earthenware wine jar's shape mimics costly bronzes, but the handles have rings that are fixed to the surface of the pot, rendering them useless.
citations
citation
Wilson, J. Keith. "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323.
page_number
Reproduced: cover, p. 295, 315
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 13
citation
“Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art II: Departments of Asian Art: Supplement.” <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 133, no. 1059 (June 1991): 417–424.
page_number
Mentioned: no. IX, p. 421; Reproduced: no. IX, p. 420
citation
Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>81, no. 8 (October 1994): 270–347.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 304; Mentioned: pp. 303–307, 347
citation
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 34–35
creditline
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-06-17 11:19:44.856000
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154507
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Chinese Art
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China - Han Dynasty
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earthenware with slip and painted decoration
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