Female musician with a lute
This figure and the others from the same ensemble (34.141.1-6) share the same posture, costume, and musical instruments as a group excavated from the tomb of Zhang Sheng in Anyang, Henan, a Sui dynasty official who died in 594.
Artwork Details
- 隋 陶持琵琶女楽伎俑
- Title: Female musician with a lute
- Period: Sui dynasty (581–618)
- Date: 6th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment
- Dimensions: H. 9 in. (22.9 cm)
- Classification: Tomb Pottery
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934
- Object Number: 34.141.1
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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