id:			130636
accession number:	1953.356
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.356
updated:		2024-04-13 11:22:53.129000

Dancing Apsaras, 900s. China, late Tang dynasty (618-907) - Five dynasties (907-960). Dry lacquer; overall: 36.3 cm (14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1953.356

title:				Dancing Apsaras
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series:				
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creation date:			900s
creation date earliest:		900
creation date latest:		999
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, late Tang dynasty (618-907) - Five dynasties (907-960)
technique:	dry lacquer
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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

	title:		Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
	opening date:   1975-09-24T04:00:00
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': "<em>The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty</em>. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (January 8-February 17, 1957).", 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Yamanaka, New York, NY
	date: ? by 1943
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	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1953
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1953–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Yamanaka &amp; Company. <em>Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art</em>. New York, NY: [Printed by the John B. Watkins Co., New York], 1943.
	page number: 	Reproduced: no. 383
	url:		

	Lee, Sherman E. “A Chinese Lacquer Sculpture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 43, no. 1 (January 1956): 6–9.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 6, 8–9; Reproduced: p. 7
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142094

	Lee, Sherman E. “A Chinese Lacquer Sculpture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 43, no. 1 (January 1956): 6–9.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6–9
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142094

	Trubner, Henry Trubner. <em>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</em>. Los  Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1957.
	page number: 	cat no. 59
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 825
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n146

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 253
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n277

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 253
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n277

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 334
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n354

	Lee, Sherman E. “A Dry Lacquer Buddhist Image from T’ang China.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 3 (March 1984): 90–99.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 93, fig. 7
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159853

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

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