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Drum Stand, from the tomb sculpture set: Kneeling Female Figure Beating a Circular Drum on a Stand in the Form of a Kneeling Human with a Bird's Beak (or Wearing a Bird Mask)

Drum Stand, from the tomb sculpture set: Kneeling Female Figure Beating a Circular Drum on a Stand in the Form of a Kneeling Human with a Bird's Beak (or Wearing a Bird Mask)

Chinese

Molded medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments over white ground (the drum made separately from the stand on which it rests)

Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE

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