Figure of a Court Lady
701-750
Scroll
Figure of a Court Lady
701-750
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with traces of unfired pigments over white slip, 16 x 5 x 6 in. (40.6 x 12.7 x 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1986.76
Amply proportioned court attendants—men as well as women—were favored
during the early 8th century, a time when vessels were also characterized by
rounded profiles and the sense of an animating interior volume.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1986; Sotheby's, New York
Asian Reinstallation: Home, Temple, Tomb
Asian Gallery Rotations 2021
[Asian Refresh]
Asian Gallery Rotations 2022
Asian Gallery Rotations 2023
Asian Rotations 2024
Asian Rotations 2025
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 8, p. 18, ill. p. 19.
"Chinese Makeup for Lips," China Culture, www.chinaculture.org, 1/27/2014, pp. 1-3 [http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/a5 Traditions6723.html
On View at the BMA
