Emperor Xiaowen and His Court, Northern Wei dynasty (386–534), ca. 522–23, China, Limestone with traces of pigment, H. 82 in. (2

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Emperor Xiaowen and His Court, Northern Wei dynasty (386–534), ca. 522–23, China, Limestone with traces of pigment, H. 82 in. ( cm); W. 12 ft. 11 in. ( cm), Sculpture, Together with a companion piece showing an empress and her attendants (now in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City), this depiction of an emperor and his entourage once adorned the Central Binyang Cave (also known as Cave 3) in the Longmen complex, near Luoyang, in Henan province

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