ID: 97
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Head: in cage
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Size_x: 36.5
Repository: NYPL
Color: Hand-tinted
Topic: Execution ground and around
Description: An executioner drives a stick suspending a cage, which contains the head of an executed man in, under the mandarin's supervision.
Keyword: Severed head, decapitation, exposition, xiaoshou 梟首
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ANONYM Chinese paintings on rice paper
Related Replication (1)
1 Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot Title: Heads in cages Information: Two kinds of pictures representing Exposure of the head, 梟示, which was an irregular punishment (runxing 閏刑), as it was not listed among the Five regular penalties (wuxing 五刑). A Criminal's head was left for up to two weeks in a wooden cage on a public place; the family was often allowed to redeem the to be buried with the corpse.
Related VisualSet (1)
1 Title: Chinese paintings on rice paper vol. 3 (Stuart rare book) DocumentNature: Watercolor
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