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Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Court Lady with High Chignon
c. 700–750
(618-907)
Overall: 31.6 cm (12 7/16 in.)
Location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
Did You Know?
Tang aristocratic women had a high degree of freedom, especially in contrast with the Neo-Confucianism of the later Song dynasty.Description
Tang figurines placed in the tombs give a vivid picture of everyday life. Images of elegant ladies in various hairstyles, costumes, and activities suggest the fashion of the time. This slender court woman's clasped hands are covered by long, narrow sleeves. Her v-neck blouse is tucked into a floor-length skirt with empire waistband. A long stole drawn from the bodice and across the back falls between her wrists. Her skirt is painted with thin red stripes, the waistband with double red circles, and the stole with white rosettes in unfired pigments. Her black hair is piled into high angled chignon.Together with other figurines—court officials, musicians, dancers, hunters, foreign travelers, horses, camels, guardian warriors, and guardian animals—such tomb sculptures accompanied the deceased in the afterlife.
- ?–1983(Osborne I. Hauge [1913–2004] and Victor Lloyd Hauge [1919–2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1983–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 77, no. 244 www.jstor.orgNeils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. Reproduced: p. 346, fig. 38 www.jstor.org
- The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
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