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唐 陶胎彩繪樂師俑
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
C.W. Moller Collection
Sotheby's London, 13 December 1946, lot 27
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 11 January 1947
The Cunliffe Collection, no.PH8, and thence by descent
Exhibited and Published:
Oriental Ceramic Society, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramic Figures, London, 8 April - 21 June 1947, no.36
Oriental Ceramic Society, Pre-T'ang Wares, London, 29 April - 10 June 1953, no.102
來源: 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任,Rolf Cunliffe勳爵 (1899-1963)
C.W.Moller先生舊藏
1946年12月13日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣,拍品27號
於1947年1月11日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏,藏品編號PH8,並由後人保存迄今
展覽及出版:
1947年4月8日至6月21日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramic Figures(中國陶瓷俑偶二千年)」特展展出,展品36號
1953年4月29日至6月10日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「先唐器物(Pre-T'ang Wares)」特展展出,展品102號
Music was extremely popular in the Tang dynasty. Institutions were set up to oversee the training and performances of music and dances in the Imperial court such as the Great Music Bureau and the Drums and Pipes Bureau. Tang court music was mainly based on the tuning of the Kuchean lute and drum and thousands of musicians housed within the walls of the Imperial Palace were trained to perform orchestral pieces drawing from Central Asian influences. For reference, see L. Picken, Music from the Tang Court, Cambridge, 1985.
Related examples of Tang musicians are illustrated by R. Krahl, Collection Julius Eberhardt, Early Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 125 and in Galerie Lafayette, Les Tresors de la Dynasty Tang, Paris, 1993, cat. no. 6.