Transcript Foreigners in Tang Dynasty Tombs of China

Foreigners in the Tang
Dynasty Tombs of China
Treasures from the Silk Road in
private and museum
collections.
Free Standing Camel with Western
Asiatic Rider.
• Painted pottery
• Height 32 ½ inches
• 82.5 cm.
Sogdian Rider with Hunting Owl
• Painted Pottery
• Height 39 inches
• 99.1 cm
Western Asiatic Woman Suckling
Child on Kneeling Camel
• Painted Grey
Earthenware.
• Height 41 cm.
Foreign Groom, son and Monkey
on Camel.
• The riders come in
three detachable
sections.
• Grey Pottery.
• Height 34”
Camel, Rider and Central Asian
Groom
• Painted Gray Pottery
• Total height 28 ½ in.
• 72.4 cm
Sogdian Merchant, son and pets
on Camel
• Grey Pottery. Free
standing camel with
rider, child at back
and animals on
separate saddle.
• Length 41 inches
• 104 cm.
Foreigner on Camel
• Painted Earthenware
• Height 28 ¼ inches
• 71.7 cm.
SOGDIAN MERCHANT
• Grey painted Clay
• Height 106 cm
Wuren Sogdian Merchant
• Grey Painted Pottery
• Height 69cm
Phrygian on Camel
• Sancai Glazed
Pottery.
• Height 29 ½ inches
• 75 cm.
Foreigner on Camel
• Sancai Glazed Buff
Pottery
• Height 29 ½ inches
• 75 cm.
Foreigner on Resting Camel
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Painted Grey Pottery
Length 20 inches
50.8 cm.
2 sections.
Sui Dynasty Camel and Foreign
Groom
• Straw Glazed Pottery
• Height of Camel 17 ½
inches, 44 cm.
Foreign Hunter on Horse
• Painted Pottery
• Height 15 ¾ inches
• 40 cm.
Turkish Rider on Horse
• Painted Pottery
• Height 13 3/8 inches
• 34 cm.
Turkish Rider on Horse
• Painted Pottery
• Height 14 1/8 inches
• 35.9 cm
Mongolian Rider on Horse
• Sancai Glazed
Pottery
• Height 17 inches
• 43 cm.
Turko-Mongolian Rider
• Sancai Glazed
Pottery
• Height 17 in
• 43.2 cm
Foreigner on Horse
• Sancai glazed with
painted face.
• Height 15 ¼ inches
• 38.7 cm.
• Length 14 inches
• 35.6 cm.
Foreign Hunter on Horse with Tiger
• Painted Pottery
• Height 13 1/8 inches
• 33.3 cm
Easy Asiatic Rider on Horse
• Glazed white
earthenware.
• Height 27.5 cm
Semitic Merchant 1
• Height 10 3/8 inches
Semitic Merchant 2
• Buff Painted Pottery
• Height 12 5/8 inches
Central Asian Merchant
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Northern Qi
Painted Pottery
Height 13 3/8 inches
34 cm.
Mongolian Figure
• Grey Pottery
• Height 17 3/8 inches
Northern Wei Foreign Soldier
• Painted Gray Pottery
• Height 14 3/8 inches
• 36.5 cm.
Northern Wei Foreign Soldier
• Painted Pottery
• Height 17 inches
• 43 cm.
Cloaked Warrior QI Dynasty
• Pottery
• Height 22 3/8 inches
• 56.8 cm.
Kunlun Dancer
• Painted Pottery figure
of black boy either
Graeco-Roman or
Indo-Chinese.
Described as South
East Asian
• Height 10 5/8 inches
• 27 cm.
Foreign Groom
• Painted Grey
Earthenware
• Height 41.9 cm
Foreign Groom
• Painted Pottery
• Height 25 ½ inches
• 64.8 cm.
Foreign Groom
• Sancai Glazed
Pottery
• Height 22 inches
• 55.9 cm
Western Asiatic Groom
• Painted Grey
Earthenware
• Height 42.2 cm
Foreign Groom
• Pottery
• Height 19 1/8 inches
• 48.6 cm
Armenian Groom
• Painter Gray Pottery
• Height 15 ½ inches
• 39.4 cm.
Central Asian Attendant
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Northern Qi
Painted pottery
Height 7 7/8 inches
20 cm.
West Asiatic Attendants
• Sancai Glazed on buff
earthenware
• Height 10 3/8 in.
• 27 cm
Foreigner with Wineskin
• Sancai Glazed
Pottery.
• Height 14 ¼ inches.
• 36 cm.
Persian Entertainer
• Painted Pottery
• Height 9 5/8 inches
• 24.5 cm
Crouching Foreign Dwarf
• Painted grey pottery
in three sections.
• Height 20 1/8 inches
• 51.1 cm.
Dwarfs
• Painted white pottery
• Height 5 ½ and 5 ¼
inches
• 13.5 and 13 cm.
Foreign Dwarf
• Green Glaze on
pottery.
• Height 7 ½ inches
• 18.5 cm.
Lokopala
• Sancai Glazed
Pottery
• Height 42 ½ inches
• 107.95 cm
LOKOPALAS
• Painted Pottery
• Height 39.5 and 39 in.
• 100.3 and 99.1 cm
• I Guardian atop lion
headed demon, the
other over a boar’s
head.
Massive Guardian Pair
• Painted red pottery
• Height 57 inches
• 1.45 meters (sic)
Guardian King Lokopala
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Sancai Glazed pottery
Standing on demon.
Height 52 1/8 inches
132.5 cms.
LOKOPALA
• Painted Pottery
standing on
recumbent deer.
• Height 40 1/2 inches
• 103 cm.
LOKAPALA
• Painted Gray Pottery
• Height 36 inches
• 91.5 cm.
LOKAPALA
• Painted Pottery
astride 2 small
demons.
• Height 24 inches
• 61 cms.