Illustration
Earthenware figurine depicting the Queen Mother of the West.
c. 2nd century CE, Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cat # 2000.106.1740.
From the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China at the Royal Ontario Museum.
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