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Figure of a female musician
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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7th - 8th century AD (AD 601 - 800)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, moulded and luted together, with painted decoration and with green and transparent glazes; unglazed head
- Dimensions
- 20.8 x 13.5 x 13 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.426
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Further reading
University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. S31
Glossary (2)
earthenware, luted
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Barlow Collection
The lady is shown seated on a square mat with her feet tucked under, her hands probably holding a musical instrument, which is now lost. The oval face has fine features, the hair is parted, wound up, tied in two loops on top of the head and bulging at the back, the head is left unglazed and the hair painted in black. The high-waisted dress with tight bodice and long narrow sleeves is covered with a transparent glaze, the long flaring skirt glazed in green, and a broad scarf, wound round the shoulder and falling down to her knees, was left unglazed, showing the beige-coloured earthenware. The mat is glazed in white with a green border and has a circular hole underneath, and the figure is hollow.
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