2003.174.B: Man with Hands Front, from the tomb sculpture set: Three Capped Men Kneeling around a Low Table and Playing 'Liubo'

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2003.174.B

Title

Man with Hands Front, from the tomb sculpture set: Three Capped Men Kneeling around a Low Table and Playing 'Liubo'

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

funerary sculpture

Date

1st cent. - 2nd cent.

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/146772

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lead-glazed ware: molded, brick-red earthenware with degraded, opalescent, emerald-green, lead-fluxed glaze

Dimensions

17 x 12.5 x 11 cm (6 11/16 x 4 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Anthony M. Solomon

Accession Year

2003

Object Number

2003.174.B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Virginia Bower, From Court to Caravan: Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon, exh. cat., ed. Robert D. Mowry, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), p. 77, cat. no. 5
• Cary Y. Liu, Recarving China's Past: Art, Archeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines", exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2005), pp.368-371, cat no. 37

Exhibition History

• Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shr, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 03/05/2005 - 06/26/2005

Related Works

• 2003.174

  Three Capped Men Kneeling around a Low Table and Playing 'Liubo'

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