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Date unknown · Pottery with slip and traces of red paint · Asian Art

The musical instruments depicted among this group of pottery figures (36.12.1, .2, .10–.13, .16) are typical of those used in popular music of the Han period (206 B.C.–A.D. 220). The instruments all had long histories, having existed for centuries, in the case of the zither, or millennia, in the case of the flute (now missing from the figure of the flutist).

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Date

Date unknown

Medium

Pottery with slip and traces of red paint

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1936