Figure
1st century BC (made)
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This earthenware figure once had detachable wooden arms and clothes made of fabric, both of which have now deteriorated. It represents another type of Chinese burial figures which is slightly less ambitious than the terra cotta armies of the First Emperor.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware painted with coloured pigment |
| Brief description | Figure, earthenware painted with coloured pigment, China, 1st century BC |
| Physical description | Grey earthenware tomb model of a naked male figure, slender like a stick. Its two arms would originally have been made of wood, now missing. The grey earthenware is painted reddish and black. |
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| Summary | This earthenware figure once had detachable wooden arms and clothes made of fabric, both of which have now deteriorated. It represents another type of Chinese burial figures which is slightly less ambitious than the terra cotta armies of the First Emperor. |
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| Accession number | FE.44-2008 |
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| Record created | May 6, 2009 |
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