Woman Holding Plum Blossoms
mid-700s
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Woman Holding Plum Blossoms, mid-700s. North China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Earthenware covered in white slip with traces of pigment; overall: 43.8 x 16.5 x 12.2 cm (17 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1987.13 Tang aristocratic women had a high degree of freedom, especially in contrast with the Neo-Confucianism of the later Song dynasty.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware covered in white slip with traces of pigment
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.8 x 16.5 x 12.2 cm (17 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1987.13
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1987, During Pan-Asian Collection period, exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
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