Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:
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ID_Number:
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WBD_09247
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Creator name:
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unknown
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Title:
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Funerary couch base depicting Sogdian musicians, dancers, and Buddhist divinities
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View description:
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full frontal view
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Date:
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550-577
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Date type:
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creation
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Repository name:
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Freer Gallery of Art
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Repository name variant:
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Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art
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Repository location:
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Washington, D.C.
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Repository_inventory_ number:
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F1915.110
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Style_Period:
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Northern Qi
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Style_Period:
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Northern Dynasties
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Style_Period name variant:
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(Southern and Northern Dynasties)
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Subject:
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couches (reclining furniture)
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Subject:
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musicians
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Subject:
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dancers
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Subject:
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divinity
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Subject:
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birds (motifs)
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Culture:
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Chinese (culture or style)
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Culture:
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Buddhism
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Category:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Category:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Work_type:
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funerary art
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Work_type:
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base (object component)
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Material_Technique:
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grey marble with traces of pigment
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Measurement:
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60.3 x 234 x 23.5 cm
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Copy_Source:
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digital image
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Image_Source:
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Walter Denny
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Note:
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From the NMAA website: "This is the front of a funerary couch, or platform, that supported a coffin. Scholars suggest it was made for Cave 4 at northern Xiangtangshan; it was rare, however, for a Buddhist cave to serve as a burial place. The couch is also unusual for its combination of Persian and Chinese elements."
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Rights Reproduction & Access:
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Duplication rights - Walter Denny
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Filename:
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WBD_09247.JPG
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