隋 陶持琵琶女楽伎俑|Female musician with a lute

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6th century · Earthenware with traces of pigment · Asian Art

This figure and the others from the same ensemble (34.141.1-6) share the same posture, costume, and musical instruments as a group excavated from the tomb of Zhang Sheng in Anyang, Henan, a Sui dynasty official who died in 594.

Artist

Unknown

Date

6th century

Medium

Earthenware with traces of pigment

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934