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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Rubbing of a Stone from the Tang-Fang Collection
1900–1916
(1644-1911) or Republican period (1912-49)
Overall: 78.7 x 174 cm (31 x 68 1/2 in.); Rubbing only: 64.1 x 123.2 cm (25 1/4 x 48 1/2 in.)
Gift of Yamanaka & Company 1919.76
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The process of making rubbings has been done in China since at least the 6th century.Description
Figures, birds, and a chariot depicted in three registers correspond to a stone relief from the east wall of the front stone chamber in the Wu Liang shrine: the top register shows a procession with a horse carriage; the second has scenes of filial piety; the third presents a banquet scene.However, missing inscribed labels to identify the scenes and a carriage replaced by two figures in the lower left corner reveal that this rubbing differs from the Wu Liang shrine version. The museum’s rubbing was either altered, taken from a different local Han dynasty shrine, or from a later stone slab that was recarved to produce rubbings for the market.
- ?-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 (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-November 14, 2021).
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