{"data": {"id": 151403, "accession_number": "1983.24", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Court Lady with Tall Headdress:  Tomb Figurine, c. 700\u2013750. North China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Earthenware with polychromy; overall: 30.8 cm (12 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1983.24", "current_location": "239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork", "title": "Court Lady with Tall Headdress:  Tomb Figurine", "creation_date": "c. 700\u2013750", "creation_date_earliest": 700, "creation_date_latest": 750, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["North China, Tang dynasty (618-907)"], "technique": "earthenware with polychromy", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 30.8 cm (12 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.308, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 309669, "title": "The Year in Review for 1983", "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-02-22T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Osborne I. Hauge [1913\u20132004] and Victor Lloyd Hauge [1919\u20132013], Falls Church, VA, sold to  the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131983", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1983\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Earthenware figurines like this one were placed in the tombs to accompany the deceased to the afterlife.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "There was prosperity and flourishing culture in the Tang dynasty. Their capital was at Chang\u2019an, which is present-day Xi\u2019an. There was great interaction with other cultures through trade, diplomacy, and artistic exchange along the Silk Road. Archaeological discoveries of earthenware figures, like this slender woman with a tall headdress, give a vivid picture of everyday life in 8th-century China.<br><br>Aristocratic women had a high degree of freedom during the Tang dynasty, especially in contrast with the Neo-Confucianism of the later Song dynasty. Women were well educated and active; paintings exist of Tang women riding horses and participating in hunts and warfare, in addition to doing more courtly, traditionally feminine activities like dancing or making music.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60763745"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1983.24-court-lady-with-tall"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cYear in Review for 1983.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 2 (1984): 38\u201379.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 77, no. 244", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.24", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.24/1983.24_web.jpg", "width": "637", "height": "893", "filesize": "42464", "filename": "1983.24_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.24/1983.24_print.jpg", "width": "2424", "height": "3400", "filesize": "569868", "filename": "1983.24_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.24/1983.24_full.tif", "width": "4815", "height": "6753", "filesize": "97576024", "filename": "1983.24_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.24/1983.24_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "659", "height": "893", "filesize": "41175"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.24/1983.24_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2510", "height": "3400", "filesize": "575943"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.24/1983.24_alt0_full.tif", "width": "5137", "height": "6957", "filesize": "107244136"}, "date_created": "2012-08-28T17:44:11", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 151403, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1983-03-07T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 700, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 700\u2013750", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:20:54.570000"}}