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Head of a Luohan
Unattributed · Northern Song, Liao, or Jin dynasty, c. 11th century
Literature
Published references
- Charles Fabens Kelley, “A Dried Lacquer Head of the T’ang Dynasty,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 1 (January 1929), pp. 2-3
- Otto Fischer, Chinesische Plastik (Munchen: R. Piper Co. Verlag), 1948, pl. 118.
- Laurence Sickman and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China (Penguin Books, 1971), p. 200, pl. 140.
- Mary Shepherd Slusser, “The Art of East Asian Lacquer Sculpture,” Orientations 27, no. 1 (January 1976), pp. 23-24, fig. 13.
- Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 148, p. 42 (ill.).
- Art Insitute of Chicago: Essential Guide, rev. ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009) p.887.
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