Polo Player, late 7th-early 8th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtAn exercise for militar
Polo Player, late 7th-early 8th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtAn exercise for military troops, polo was also fashionable among men and women of Tang China, and this polo player is actually a woman dressed in a man’s riding habit. It is in keeping with the exuberance of the Tang dynasty that such sporting figures of daily life should be among objects for the afterlife.Size: Overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.)Medium: painted earthenwarehttps://clevelandart.org/art/1964.181 -- source link
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