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Woman from an Audience Scene

mid-600s to early 700s

Japan, Asuka period

(538-710) to Nara period (710-94)
unfired clay with color
Overall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1950.393
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1950
    (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1950–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 899 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 273 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 273 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 369 archive.org
    Shimizu, Zenzo 清水善三. "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada." Ars Buddhica 佛教藝術, no. 126, part I (September 1979), pp. 67–88. Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 17
    Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 16, cat. no. 2
    Keizaburō Mizuno 水野敬三郎, Kin’ya Sekiguchi 関口欣也, and Shūya Ōnishi大西修也, eds. Hōryūji kara Yakushiji e: Asuka Nara no kenchiku, chōkoku = 法隆寺から薬師寺へ : 飛鳥・奈良の建築・彫刻 [From Horyuji to Yakushiji: Architecture and sculpture in Asuka and Nara]. Tōkyō: Kodansha 講談社, 1990. Reproduced: no. 145, p. 144
  • One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).
    Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
    Exhibition of the Month: The Mother Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1953-January 27, 1954).
    35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
  • {{cite web|title=Woman from an Audience Scene|url=false|author=|year=mid-600s to early 700s|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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