IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206801 accession number: ML.5-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 16 September 2015 updated: Friday 27 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze Taotie mask,with uneven green and reddish brown patination. Feline face with curling horns, ridged eyebrows and pierced, bulging eyes, truncated at the tip of the nose. The back has six shallow loops for attachment Label, with a tie on, inscribed in green ink 'Sir Neil Malcolm' title: mask NOTES ----- type: history note value: Major General Sir Neill Malcolm Exhibited in Paris 1954, Grousset Memorial Exhibition, no. 384 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206801 TECHNIQUES ---------- piercing CATEGORIES ------ category: bronze category: mask DATING ------ creation date: 1050 - 771 creation date earliest: 1050 creation date latest: 771 culture: Zhou Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes from Earliest Times to the end of the Chou Dynasty in B.C. 249 CITATIONS -------- Chinese Bronzes etc. belonging to Major Gen. Sir Neill Malcolm and Captain Dugald Malcolm Ancient Chinese Bronzes Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronzes from Earliest Times to the end of the Chou Dynasty in B.C. 249 Apollo --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/988/large_ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg height: 871 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/988/mid_ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg height: 425 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ML.5-1992_1_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/988/preview_ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/989/large_ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg height: 871 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/989/mid_ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg height: 425 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ML.5-1992_2_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/989/preview_ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_dc2.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/225/large_ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_mas.jpg height: 871 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/225/mid_ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_mas.jpg height: 425 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ML.5-1992_1_201201_mdb56_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/225/preview_ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_mas.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/225/ML_5_1992_1_201201_mdb56_mas.ptif height: 3870 pixels width: 4548 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/226/large_ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_mas.jpg height: 871 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/226/mid_ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_mas.jpg height: 425 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ML.5-1992_2_201201_mdb56_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/226/preview_ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_mas.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/226/ML_5_1992_2_201201_mdb56_mas.ptif height: 3870 pixels width: 4548 pixels