Unknown Artist
Female mourner
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This female mourner (pair with EC6.1962) is an example of a more pedestrian tomb figure, lacking the stature, style and detail of other Han funerary figures, and most likely made for tombs of the less wealthy.
Jackie Menzies, 'Early Chinese Art', AGNSW, 1983. cat.no. X (a).
- Place of origin
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China
- Period
- China: Han dynasty 206 BCE–220 CE
- Year
- 206 BCE-220 CE
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- grey earthenware, unglazed
- Dimensions
- 25.0cm height
- Credit
- Gift of Mr Sydney Cooper 1962
- Accession number
- EC5.1962
