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Four Ladies of the Court Playing Polo
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Four Ladies of the Court Playing Polo

CultureChinese
Dateca. 650-700 C.E.
MediumEarthenware with traces of slip and pigments
DimensionsOverall: 10 × 12 7/8 × 5 1/2 inches (25.4 × 32.69 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Katherine Harvey
Object number48-31/4
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
Exhibition History

Man and His World, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa , Expo '67, the Fine Arts Gallery, Montreal, April 28 - October 27, 1967.

Provenance

Mathias Komor;

Purchased through Mathias Komor by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 81 (repro.).

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 157 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 289 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 323, pl. 120 (repro.).

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figure detail
Four Ladies of the Court Playing Polo
ca. 650-700
48-31/1
figure detail
Four Ladies of the Court Playing Polo
ca. 650-700 C.E.
48-31/2
figure detail
Four Ladies of the Court Playing Polo
ca. 650-700 C.E.
48-31/3
Gnome (Earth Spirit?)
Gnome (Earth Spirit?)
3rd century C.E.
77-45
Bactrian Camel
Bactrian Camel
Sui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)-Tang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
59-63
Guardian of the North
Guardian of the North
ca. 740-750 C.E.
34-70
Armored Horse and Rider
Armored Horse and Rider
Sui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)
49-9
34-45/1 is on right
Wrestler
Northern Wei dynasty (386-534 C.E.)
34-45/1 A,B
overall oblique
Loaded Bactrian Camel
Sui (581-618 C.E.)-Tang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
31-136/10
34-45/2 is on left
Wrestler
Northern Wei (386-534 C.E.)-Western Wei dynasty (535-556 C.E.)
34-45/2 A,B
Warrior
Warrior
Northern Qi dynasty (550-577 C.E.)
43-7
Guardian Warrior
Guardian Warrior
late 3rd-early 4th century C.E.
33-555