id:			140184
accession number:	1964.181
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.181
updated:		2023-03-10 19:42:50.900000

Polo Player, late 600s-early 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Painted earthenware; overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.181

title:				Polo Player
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creation date:			late 600s-early 700s
creation date earliest:		675
creation date latest:		725
current location:		
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique:	painted earthenware
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
	opening date:   1990-07-05T04:00:00
	<i>The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).

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PROVENANCE

	John L. Severance [1863–1936], Cleveland, OH, to his relatives Severance and Greta Millikin
	date: ?-1936?
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	Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1936?–1964
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1964–
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wall description:
An exercise for military troops, polo was also fashionable among men and women of Tang China, and this polo player is actually a woman dressed in a man's riding habit. It is in keeping with the exuberance of the Tang dynasty that such sporting figures of daily life should be among objects for the afterlife.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 96, pp. 91–92
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	Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, October 1985, pp. 326–359.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 347, fig. 41
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914

	<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
	page number: 	cat. no. 2
	url:		

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