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Caparisoned Haniwa Horse

400s-500s

Japan, Kofun period

(c. AD 300-710)

Earthenware with traces of pigment

Overall: 59.7 x 66 cm (23 1/2 x 26 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1957.27

Location

235B Japanese

Description

Tombs covered with large earthen mounds resembling those on the Asian continent began to appear in Japan around the year 300. They are called old mounds (kofun). Archaeologists named the span of time in which kofun appear after them. Their surfaces were initially covered with hollow clay cylinders called haniwa in Japanese. Sculptures of animals and finally human figures followed, developing over the 300s to 500s. This horse’s tack, with its round bells, resembles saddlery then in fashion in Korea.

Provenance

?–1957

The Norweb Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs, R. Henry Norweb [1895–1984] to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1957–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 895 archive.org

"Recent Accessions Briefly Noted." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 4 (1959): 60-61. Reproduced: p. 61 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. "Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese Art." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 21, no. 1 (Fall 1962): 3-12. Reproduced: fig. 13, p. 8 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Reproduced: fig. 79, p. 73

Hane, Mikiso. Japan; a Historical Survey. [New York]: Scribner, 1972. p. 25

Stitt, Irene. Japanese Ceramics of the Last 100 Years. New York: Crown Publishers, 1974. Reproduced: p. 3, Fig. 3

Matsumara, Gentaro. The Emperor's Island: The Story of Japan; (1). Tokyo: Lotus Press, 1977. Reproduced: fig. 6

Gardner, Helen, Horst De la Croix, and Richard G. Tansey. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Reproduced: fig. 13-1, p. 400

Gilbert, Rita, and William McCarter. Living with Art. New York: Knopf, 1988. fig. 379, p. 306

Mittler, Gene A. Art in Focus. Mission Hills, Calif: Glencoe Pub. Co, 1989. Reproduced: fig. 20.11, p. 410

Gardner, Helen, Horst De la Croix, Richard G. Tansey, and Diane Kirkpatrick. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Reproduced: fig, 13-1, p. 476

Hobbs, Jack A. Art in Context. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Reproduced: fig. 2-34, p. 45

Getlein, Mark. Gilbert's Living with Art. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Reproduced: p. 279, fig. 12.1

Brommer, Gerald F. Discovering Art History. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2007. Reproduced: p. 102, fig. 4- 43

Art Documentation: Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America 38, no. 2 (Fall 2019): cover. Reproduced: cover image

Koyama-Richard, Brigitte. Animaux Dans La Peinture Japonaise. Lyon: Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 13

Cunningham, Michael R., "Asian Autumn", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 35 no. 08, October 1995 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5 archive.org

Exhibition history

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 3, 1995).

Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 7-July 8, 2019).

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