Seated Woman Holding Mirror
618–906
- Medium
- Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes and traces of polychrome pigments
- Dimensions
- 31.2 × 13.8 × 15.5 cm (12 5/16 × 5 7/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Earthenware
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
earthenwareceramicsasian artChinese (culture or style)decorative arts
About
This mature woman with a topknot gazing into a hand-mirror reflects life in a sophis-ticated and fashion-conscious Tang court. She may be applying cosmetics, which included mineral pigments that were im-ported from Persia (now Iran) and Central Asia. She sits upon round, waisted stools that were a new furniture style for the time.