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Musician Beating a Drum

Series TitleTomb Figures of a Military Band
CultureChinese
DateNorthern Wei dynasty (386-534 C.E.)
MediumGray clay with traces of polychrome
DimensionsOverall: 11 inches (27.94 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-186/1
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionOne figure from a group of eight figures of a military band. Standing figure of a T'o-pa Tartar, wearing a uniform of a tunic with wide sleeves, full trousers tied at the knee, and a helmet, with hands raised in position of beating a drum. Attached to a wood base.Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., stock no. 50059, by November 1932;

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 102(repro.).  

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), 78 (repro.).  

Annette L. Juliano, Art of The Six Dynasties: Centuries of Change and Innovation: [Exhibition] October 29, 1975 Through February 1, 1976 (New York: China House Gallery, 1975), 45, no. 21-21a (repro.).  

Garth Clark, ed., Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics (Kansas City, Missouri: Contemporary Art Society, 1983) (repro.).

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 153-155, no. 82 (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), 288 (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), 312, no. 95 (repro.).

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figure overall
520 C.E.
32-186/4
Figure Playing a Drum
Northern Wei dynasty (386-534 C.E.)
32-186/3
figure overall
early 6th century C.E.
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Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.)
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figure overall
Northern Wei dynasty (386-534 C.E.)
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Zhou dynasty (1045-256 B.C.E.)
40-16
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Northern Wei dynasty (386-534 C.E.)
34-45/1 A,B
34-45/2 is on left
Northern Wei (386-534 C.E.)-Western Wei dynasty (535-556 C.E.)
34-45/2 A,B
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Warring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
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Warring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
39-28/4