Collection Highlights
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Date:
1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Moore.1
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tung Siao-wen
Object Number:
INV.10962
Date:
1925-1975
Medium:
Wood, textile, painted papier-mâché, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 3 x 3 1/2 in. ( 25.4 x 7.6 x 8.9 cm )
Marks:
printed: paper tag; "No. 934/ Tung Siao -Wen..." history of Tung Siao-Wen
Description:
Costume figurine with papier-mâché or wooden painted head with white face and black hair wearing a blue and pink robe holding a flower in her right hand and a paper fan in her left on a wooden base.
Gallery Label:
Figurine of Tung Siao-Wen, concubine of scholar Miao Hsiang during the Ming dynasty.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
