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Miniature Female Tomb Figure

CultureChinese
DateWarring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
MediumDark gray clay with traces of cinnabar
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 inches (5.72 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number39-28/4
On View
On view
Gallery Location
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DescriptionFigure of a lady with arms folded in front and a bun on the left side of her head. Dark gray clay with traces of red pigment. One of a set of five.Exhibition History

Washington, DC, Freer Gallery of Art, March - June 1953.

Provenance

Dr. Otto Burchard;

Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1939.

Published References

von Eleanor Erdberg Consten, Das Alte China (Stuttgart : G. Kilpper, 1958), pl. 61 (repro.).

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