534-550
Flying divinity, flying toward left and facing right. Purportedly from Tianlongshan, Shanxi province.
max: 40.5 x 32 cm (15 15/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Molded, gray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigments
6th centuryChineseLight gray stone, probably sandstone. From the “Elephant Chapel,” Wangmugong Cave 王母宮石窟, Jingchuan, Gansu province.
4th-6th centuryChineseStoneware with celadon glaze
6th centuryChineseBuff sandstone. From Yungang, Shanxi province.
5th-6th centuryChineseLead-glazed ware: molded white earthenware with straw-yellow, lead-fluxed glaze and with traces of cold-painted pigments over the glaze
6th-7th centuryChineseMolded, medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments; localized areas with cold-painted pigments over white ground
6th centuryChineseMolded, medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments over white ground
6th centuryChineseLimestone with polychromy and gilding
6th-7th centuryChineseMolded, gray earthenware with cold-painted pigment
6th centuryChineseGray limestone with traces of gesso and polychromy
6th centuryChineseWhite marble with polychromy and traces of gilding
6th centuryChineseMolded light gray eartheware with traces of cold-painted pigments on a white ground
6th-7th centuryChinese