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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Female mourner
- Place of origin
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China
- Period
- Han dynasty 206 BCE - 220 CE → China
- Year
- 206 BCE-220 CE
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- grey earthenware, unglazed
- Dimensions
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25.0cm height
- Credit
- Gift of Mr Sydney Cooper 1962
- Accession number
- EC5.1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This female mourner (pair with EC6.1962) is an example of a more pedestrian tomb figure, lacking the stature, style and detail of other Han funerary figures, and most likely made for tombs of the less wealthy.
Jackie Menzies, 'Early Chinese Art', AGNSW, 1983. cat.no. X (a).
- Bibliography (2)
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'Chinese tomb figures in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' by Edmund Capon, pg. 96-101., The Australian Antique Collector Jan 1981-Jun 1981, Jan 1981-Jun 1981, 99 (illus.). fig.no. 9
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Early Chinese Art, Sydney, 1983, not paginated. cat.no. X. See 'Further Information' for text.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Early Chinese art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Feb 1983–08 May 1983.
