Kneeling torch bearer
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Kneeling torch bearer
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Published 2019-02-21T17:07:27+00:00
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Excavated near Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), this small sculpture of a kneeling man holding a tube-like vessel in his extended hands may have served as a torch bearer in a tomb. The figure is clothed in a close-fitting garment that wraps from left to right and is belted with a narrow band. The head covering, rather like an open helmet, is broad at the back and rises to a peaked top before descending in a narrow tongue-shaped band at the forehead.
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| Date published | 21/02/2019 |
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| Title | Kneeling torch bearer |
| Date | 4th century BC |
| Dimension | 28.58 × 15.24 × 15.24 cm, 3.3 kg |
| Accession | 50.46.114 |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Credit | Bequest of Alfred F. Pillsbury |
| Record | https://collections.artsmia.org/art/825/kneeling-figure-china |
| Place | Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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