Tomb Guardian Creature (Zhenmushou) | Yale University Art Gallery

second quarter 8th century CE

Medium: Red earthenware with white slip and pigments
Dimensions: 29 × 15 × 9 in. (73.7 × 38.1 × 22.9 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with a gift from Ruth and Bruce B. Dayton, B.A. 1940
Accession Number: 2000.57.3
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Tang dynasty (618–907 C.E.)
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

The Lillian Schloss Collection, New York; purchased in 2000 by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Refining the Imagination: Tradition, Collecting, and the Vassar Education, exh. cat. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Vassar College, 1999), 41, no. 3, ill

Janet Baker, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, exh. cat. (Santa Ana, Calif.: Bowers Museum, 1996), 53, no. 151, ill

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