Statue Base

C66B

Location: On Display in the Asia Galleries

From: China | Hebei | Yixian

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number	C66B
Current Location	Asia Galleries - On Display
Culture	Chinese
Provenience	China \| Hebei \| Yixian
Period	Liao Dynasty (uncertain) \| Jin Dynasty (uncertain)
Date Made	10th century - 13th century CE
Section	Asian
Materials	Clay \| Glaze
Technique	Fired \| Glazed \| Three Color Glaze
Description	Base for a statue of a luoan found in a cave near Yizhou, present day Yixian county in Hebei province. It is made of soft white pottery with a polychrome glaze.
Height	17 cm
Width	94 cm
Depth	94 cm
Credit Line	Gift of C. T. Loo, 1916
Other Number	Getz 1 - Other Number

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Dec 1914 - Present	Exhibition of the Art of the Far East
22 Feb 2017 - Present	China Gallery
1941 - 1966	Chinese Halls
1968 - 22 Feb 2017	Chinese Rotunda

Hsu, Eileen Hsiang-ling. Monks in Glaze: Patronage, Kiln Origin, and Iconography of the Yixian Luohans. Boston: Brill, 2016.	View related objects
Steinhardt, Nancy S. "The Luohan that Came from Afar." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 52, no. 3. (2010): 7-8. See: pg. 7	View related objects
Steinhardt, Nancy S. "The Chinese Rotunda." Arts of Asia 38, no. 5. (2008): 83-95. See: Pg. 84, Fig. 14	View related objects
Smithies, Richard. "A Luohan from Yizhou in the University of Pennsylvania Museum." Orientations (Hong Kong) 32, no. 2. (2001): 51-56. Page/Fig./Plate: 51	View related objects
Winegrad, Dilys P. Through Time, Across Continents. The University Museum, 1993. See: p. 62, fig. 53	View related objects
Horne, Lee C. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1985. Page/Fig./Plate: 60	View related objects
Jayne, Horace H. "The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects." The University Museum Bulletin 9, no. 2-3. (1941): 9-50. See: Frontispiece	View related objects
Jayne, Horace H. "Chinese Art at the University Museum." Parnassus 11, no. 1. (01 Jan 1939). Page/Fig./Plate: 7-11	View related objects
Gray, Basil. "Chinese Sculpture: Examples at Burlington House." The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors 97 (February). (1936). See: pg. 64, pg. 76 (ill.)	View related objects
Royal Academy of Arts. Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1935. See: Pg. 209, No. 2438, Pg. 224, 2438 (illustration)	View related objects
Jayne, Horace H. "The Museum's Loan to Burlington House ( for International Exhibition of Chinese Art held in London 1935-36)." The University Museum Bulletin 6, no. 1. (1935): 17-21. Page/Fig./Plate: 7-11, pl. 6.	View related objects
March, Benjamin. China and Japan in our Museums. New York: American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1929. Page/Fig./Plate: 88	View related objects
Springer, Anton. "Die ostasiatische Kunst." Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte 6. (1929): 435068. Page/Fig./Plate: 111, 112	View related objects
Getz, John. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1916. See: No. 1, page 177	View related objects
Bishop, Carl W. "Notes on Chinese Statuary." The Museum Journal VII, No. 3. (1916): 152-177. Page/Fig./Plate: 163, figure 165	View related objects
Sayce, Archibald H. "Oriental Art in the University Museum." The Museum Journal VII, No. 3. (1916): 149-151. See: Fig. 165	View related objects
Hobson, Robert L. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain : An Account of the Potter's Art in China From Primitive Times to the Present Day. 1. London: Cassell, 1915. Page/Fig./Plate: 35	View related objects
Bishop, Carl W. "A Pottery Statue of A Lohan." The Museum Journal V, No. 3. (1914). Page/Fig./Plate: 129-135, fig. 69.	View related objects
University of Pennsylvania, Office of the President. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Art of the Far East. Philadelphia: 1914. See: No. 7	View related objects
Kummel, Otto. "Die Ausstellung Der Sammlung Perzynski Im Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum." Ostasiatische Zeitschrift Jahrg. 2, Heft 4 Januar/Maerz. (1914): 457-461.	View related objects
Perzynski, Friedrich. "Jagd auf Gotter." Die neue Rundschau (October). (1913). Page/Fig./Plate: 1427	View related objects
Jayne, Horace F. "Introduction." The University Museum Bulletin IX, no. 2-3. (1941): 5-8. See: p. 5	View related objects

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