Suspension Bell (Bo) 东周时期青铜镈

Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 B.C.), first half of 5th century B.C.

China

Status: On View, Gallery 132
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Suspension Bell (Bo) 东周时期青铜镈
Place: China (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 499 BCE–450 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 62.2 × 43.6 × 36.8 cm (24 1/2 × 17 3/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1938.1335
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A Picture Book of Chinese Bronzes in the Collections of Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1940), p. 8.
Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection (Art Institute of Chicago/ Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Lakeside Press, 1946), pp. 80, 258-59, pls. 44-46.
George W. Weber, Jr., The Ornaments of Late Chou Bronzes: A Method of Analysis (Rutgers University Press, 1973), pp. 252-60, pl. 53.
Lothar Alexander von Falkenhausen, Ritual Music in Bronze Age China: An Archaeological Perspective, PhD diss., Harvard University, 1988, pp. 504-5.
Shikago Bijutsukan, Chugoku bijutsu meihen ten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from Art Institute of Chicago (Osaka: Osaka Shiritsu Toyo Toji Bijutsukan, Atami: MOA Bijutsukan, Tokyo: Idemitsu Bijutsukan, 1989), cat. 9, p. 133, p. 22 (ill).
Colin Mackenzie, “Adaptation and Invention: Chinese Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods, Orientations 24, 6 (June 1993), pp. 59-71, fig. 9.
Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago / Harry N. Abrams, 1993), pp. 22-24 (ill.).
Elinor Pearlstein, “Bell (Bo cheng)” in The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007), p. 81-2, (ill.) 82.

Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Shikago Bijutsukan, Chugoku bijutsu meihinten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 11-March 21, 1989; traveled to MOA Museum of Art, Tokyo, April 1-May 7, 1989, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, May 16-June 19, 1989.

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