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title: Lady Yang
author: The Trustees of the British Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/4942/lady-yang/
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updated: 1970-01-01
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# Lady Yang
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/4942.jpg)
## Image Caption
Chinese beauty [Yang](https://www.worldhistory.org/Yin_and_Yang/) Guifei, consort of the [Tang](https://www.worldhistory.org/Tang_Dynasty/) emperor [Xuanzong](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Xuanzong/) (AD 685-762), playing the flute, seated alone on an elaborate Chinese-style throne, surrounded by flowering trees and peonies in open mountain landscape. Japanese painting from the early 19th century.
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