1924.40: Three Figures (from the north side of the east wall of Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, Gansu province)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1924.40
- Title
- Three Figures (from the north side of the east wall of Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, Gansu province)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- mural painting
- Date
- 7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Gansu province, Dunhuang
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/210041
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Section of a wall painting; polychromy on unfired clay
- Dimensions
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painting proper (irregular): H. 33 x W. 36 cm (13 x 14 3/16 in.)
framed: H. 72 x W. 73.5 x D. 3.5 cm (28 3/8 x 28 15/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- From Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, Gansu province; acquired during the First Fogg Expedition to China (1923-24) led by Langdon Warner (1881-1955)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, First Fogg Expedition to China (1923-1924)
- Accession Year
- 1924
- Object Number
- 1924.40
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Mount Holyoke Friends of Art, Chinese Art: A Loan Exhibition Presented by the Mount Holyoke Friends of Art in honor of the John Martyn Warbeke Fund for Oriental Art, exh. cat. (1960), cat. 44
- Sanchita Balachandran, "Research into the Collecting and Conservation History of Chinese Wall Paintings from Dunhuang in the Harvard University Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2004), Unpublished, passim
- Sanchita Balachandran, Object Lessons: The Politics of Preservation and Museum Building in Western China in the Early Twentieth Century, International Journal of Cultural Property (2007), Vol. 14, No. 1, 1-32
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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