Tang figurines

Pottery figurines are those little statues placed in the tombs to accompany the dead. In Shang China servants, concubines and guards were supposed to follow their master in the grave; these mass immolations were substituted with the burial of pottery models already by the Zhou dynasty, and the custom persisted up to the Ming. The following figurines were all moulded during the Tang dynasty, a so-called golden period for Chinese history and culture.

Two dames. Earthenware.	Dancing girl. Earthenware.
Two dames. Earthenware.

Tomb guardian (lokopala) trampling on a demon. Earthenware painted and polychrome gazed.
A foreigner. Earthenware.

 

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