Kneeling figure

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Kneeling figure

China

Date
4th century BCE
Medium
Bronze
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Excavated near Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 bce), this small sculpture of a kneeling man holding a tubelike vessel may have served as a torchbearer in a tomb. China, Asia

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