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Group shot: 25.10-13, 25.190
Tales from History and Legends: Lintel and pediment of a tomb
Group shot: 25.10-13, 25.190

Tales from History and Legends: Lintel and pediment of a tomb

late 1st century B.C.
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware, ink, color, whitened ground
DimensionsOverall 73.3 x 240.7 cm (28 7/8 x 94 3/4 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number25.13
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceAbout 1915, excavated from a tomb in the village of Balitai, near Luoyang, China. 1918, purchased in China by a Mr. Kwen; 1923,sold by Kwen to C.T. Loo and Co., Paris and New York; 1925, sold by C.T. Loo to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853- d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1925, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 24, 1925)