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Female Musician Playing a Flute or Panpipe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2017
Female Musician Playing a Flute or Panpipe (Sheng?)
Period: Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9)
Culture: China
Medium: Earthenware with pigment
Dimensions: H. 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm)
Classification: Tomb Pottery
Credit Line: Lent by Xuzhou City Museum
This kneeling musician, together with the two other musicians and two dancers in this gallery, once formed part of a troupe of performers interred with a deceased prince to entertain him in the afterlife. That she raises both arms to her mouth suggests that she may have played a wind instrument. Her hands were missing at the time of excavation, but a panpipe and a type of reedpipe identified as a sheng were discovered alongside her, suggesting her role.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/640882
Period: Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9)
Culture: China
Medium: Earthenware with pigment
Dimensions: H. 13 9/16 in. (34.5 cm)
Classification: Tomb Pottery
Credit Line: Lent by Xuzhou City Museum
This kneeling musician, together with the two other musicians and two dancers in this gallery, once formed part of a troupe of performers interred with a deceased prince to entertain him in the afterlife. That she raises both arms to her mouth suggests that she may have played a wind instrument. Her hands were missing at the time of excavation, but a panpipe and a type of reedpipe identified as a sheng were discovered alongside her, suggesting her role.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/640882
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