Standing Foot Soldier
167
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)
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Chinese Mortuary Ceramics from the Collection," December 2008-December 2009.
