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Rubbing of a Stone from the Tang-Fang Collection
1900–1916
(1644-1911) or Republican period (1912-49)
Overall: 66.7 x 181.6 cm (26 1/4 x 71 1/2 in.); Rubbing only: 134 x 53.2 cm (52 3/4 x 20 15/16 in.)
Gift of Yamanaka & Company 1919.75
Location: Not on view
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In the period before photography, life-size rubbings of sculptures and cultural relics from ancient sites were useful study material.Description
This rubbing corresponds in composition with stone reliefs from the east wall in stone chamber 3 of the Wu Liang shrine. The upper register illustrates stories of virtuous women.Read from right to left, the last scene in the upper left corner shows a bed under a roof that is labeled “Virtuous Woman of the Capital.” The story relates that a woman was blackmailed into helping to kill her husband. She pretended to cooperate but took her husband’s place in bed. When the killers realized in the morning that they had decapitated the woman, they abandoned their murderous plan.
- ?-1916Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1916-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 5 (1919): 97-98. Mentioned: p. 97 www.jstor.org
- From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (從石窟到墓祠—石刻拓片). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-November 14, 2021).
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