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Harpist

mid-700s

North China, Tang dynasty

(618-907)

Glazed earthenware

Overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1931.450

Location

239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork

Provenance

?–1931

(Robert Rousset, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1931–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Sirén, Osvald. :Stilentwicklung der Chinesischen Grabfguren." Wiener Beitrage in Kunst and Kultur Asiens, Band VI, 1931.

Hollis, Howard C. “A T’ang Dynasty Tomb Figure.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 1 (January 1932): 7–8 and 2. Mentioned: pp. 7–8; Reproduced: p. 2 www.jstor.org

Cox, Warren E. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944. Reproduced: I, pl. 30

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 828 archive.org

Ono, Katsutoshi 小野勝年. Chūgoku 4. Zui Tō [中国隋・唐 = China, 4. Sui and T'ang dynasties]. Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten, 1961. Reproduced

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Reproduced: p. 279, fig. no. 361

Munro, Thomas. Oriental Aesthetics. Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve University, 1965. Reproduced: pl. V, facing p. 54

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 251 archive.org

Aida, Yūji 会田雄次. Sekai rekishi shirīzu [世界歴史シリーズ]. vol. 7 Daitō no han'ei [大唐の繁栄 = The prosperity of the Great Tang]. Tōkyō: Sekai Bunkasha, 1968. Reproduced: p. 30

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 251 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 332 archive.org

Ancient Chinese Sculpture. London: Eskenazi, 1978. Reproduced: fig. 13

Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. Reproduced: colorplate no. 52 and pl. 409, p. 418

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 385, fig. 374

Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 99, pp. 93 and 95

Watson, William. Tang and Liao Ceramics. New York: Rizzoli, 1984. Reproduced: fig. 209

Des Forges, Roger V., and John S. Major. The Asian World, 600-1500. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. p. 19

Exhibition history

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).

Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2, 1945-February 4, 1946).

Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

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