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"title": "The Year in Review for 1983",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).",
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"description": "(Osborne I. Hauge [1913\u20132004] and Victor Lloyd Hauge [1919\u20132013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Tang aristocratic women had a high degree of freedom, especially in contrast with the Neo-Confucianism of the later Song dynasty.",
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"description": "Tang figurines placed in the tombs give a vivid picture of everyday life. Images of elegant ladies in various hairstyles, costumes, and activities suggest the fashion of the time. This slender court woman's clasped hands are covered by long, narrow sleeves. Her v-neck blouse is tucked into a floor-length skirt with empire waistband. A long stole drawn from the bodice and across the back falls between her wrists. Her skirt is painted with thin red stripes, the waistband with double red circles, and the stole with white rosettes in unfired pigments. Her black hair is piled into high angled chignon.
Together with other figurines\u2014court officials, musicians, dancers, hunters, foreign travelers, horses, camels, guardian warriors, and guardian animals\u2014such tomb sculptures accompanied the deceased in the afterlife.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cYear in Review for 1983.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38\u201379.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 77, no. 244",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 346, fig. 38",
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