Standing Foot Soldier
167-134
Scroll
Standing Foot Soldier
167-134
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with unfired pigments over white slip, 18 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (46.4 x 15.6 x 11.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of George and Julianne Alderman, Baltimore
Object Number
2000.336
Dignitaries of the Western Han were buried with ranks of soldiers in the manner of China's First Emperor, but on a smaller scale. The tomb of the Western Han emperior, Jingdi, at Yangjiawan in Shaanxi province contained more than 3,000 figures of this type.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2000; George and Julianne Alderman, Baltimore; Michael Teller, Williamsburg, Virginia (acquired after 1990)
Danielle and Vadime Elisseeff, 'New Discroveries in China,' Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1983, no. 77, p. 121: group of mounted soldiers and foot soldier from Yangjiawan, Xianyang (Shaanxi province), discovered 1965 and dated to c. 179-141 BC. The Quest for Eternity, San Franciso: Chronicle Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987 (exhibition catalogue), pp. 17-52, 68-74, cat. nos. 11-14, 18-21, fig. 6, ill. Fine Asian Works of Art, Butterfields, San Francisco, Sale 71180, 6/27/2000, nos. 3412, 3414, ill. 3412, a group of 13 figures with an estimate of $12,000-$15,000, sold for $6,800 + 15% premium; 3414 with an estimate of $4,000-6,000 did not sell. 'Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art,' Sotheby's, NY, 9/23/1997, fig. 188, p. 84, ill, a group of 3 equestrian figures with an estimate of $20,000-25,000.
