1943.53.19: Flying Apsaras Playing a Lute (Pipa)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.53.19
- Title
- Flying Apsaras Playing a Lute (Pipa)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- relief, sculpture
- Date
- 534-550
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shanxi province, Tianlongshan
- Period
- Eastern Wei, 534-550
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204139
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Stone with traces of polychromy; purportedly from the Tianlongshan Caves, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province
- Dimensions
- max: H. 37 x W. 35 cm (14 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.53.19
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Flying divinity holding a lute (pipa), flying toward left and facing right. Purportedly from Tianlongshan, Shanxi province.
Publication History
- Tianlongshan Caves Project, website, Center for the Art of East Asia, The University of Chicago, accessed April 7, 2021, https://tls.uchicago.edu/single-sculpture/167
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