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Dancing Apsaras

900s

China, late Tang dynasty (618-907) - Five dynasties

(907-960)

Dry lacquer

Overall: 36.3 cm (14 5/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1953.356

Location

not on view

Provenance

? by 1943

Yamanaka, New York, NY

?–1953

(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1953–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Yamanaka & Company. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art. New York, NY: [Printed by the John B. Watkins Co., New York], 1943. Reproduced: no. 383

Lee, Sherman E. “A Chinese Lacquer Sculpture.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 1 (January 1956): 6–9. Mentioned: pp. 6, 8–9; Reproduced: p. 7 www.jstor.org

Trubner, Henry Trubner. The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty: A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient, and Europe, January 8-February 17, 1957. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1957. cat no. 59

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 825 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 253 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 253 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. 334 archive.org

Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum = 國立故宮博物院]. Hai wai yi zhen, Yu qi [海外遺珎,漆器= Chinese art in overseas collections, lacquerware]. Taibei Shi Shilin qu: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1987. Reproduced: pl. 18

Exhibition history

The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (January 8-February 17, 1957).

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

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