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Detail of a Figure of a Tomb Guardian in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Detail of a Figure of a Tomb Guardian in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
Title/Object Name: Figure of a tomb guardian

Culture: China

Period: Tang dynasty (618–907)

Date: ca. late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze and pigments

Dimensions: H. 16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm)

Classification: Tomb Pottery

Credit Line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991

Accession Number: 1991.253.9

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Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/asian_...

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Although he obviously represents a racial group from the West, this armor-clad warrior stood sentinel in a Chinese tomb to protect its inhabitant from harm.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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