id: 112857 accession number: 1931.450 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.450 updated: 2023-09-23 11:04:39.435000 Harpist, mid-700s. North China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Glazed earthenware; overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1931.450 title: Harpist title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid-700s creation date earliest: 740 creation date latest: 760 current location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: North China, Tang dynasty (618-907) technique: glazed earthenware department: Chinese Art collection: China - Tang Dynasty type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art opening date: 1945-10-02T05:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2, 1945-February 4, 1946). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982). --- PROVENANCE (Robert Rousset [1901–1982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1931 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sirén, Osvald. :Stilentwicklung der Chinesischen Grabfguren." Wiener Beitrage in Kunst and Kultur Asiens, Band VI, 1931. page number: url: 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. page number: Mentioned: pp. 7–8; Reproduced: p. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137441 Cox, Warren E. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944. page number: Reproduced: I, pl. 30 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 828 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n147 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. page number: Reproduced url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Reproduced: p. 279, fig. no. 361 url: Munro, Thomas. Oriental Aesthetics. Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve University, 1965. page number: Reproduced: pl. V, facing p. 54 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 251 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n275 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. page number: Reproduced: p. 30 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 251 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n275 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 332 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n352 Ancient Chinese Sculpture. London: Eskenazi, 1978. page number: Reproduced: fig. 13 url: Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. page number: Reproduced: colorplate no. 52 and pl. 409, p. 418 url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 385, fig. 374 url: Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 99, pp. 93 and 95 url: Watson, William. Tang and Liao Ceramics. New York: Rizzoli, 1984. page number: Reproduced: fig. 209 url: Des Forges, Roger V., and John S. Major. The Asian World, 600-1500. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. page number: p. 19 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.450/1931.450_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.450/1931.450_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.450/1931.450_full.tif