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- Painted pottery woman figurine of the Western Han Dynasty
- Gorgeously dressed, this woman figurine has a graceful posture, elegant face and mild expression.
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- The color-painted breast-feeding mother of the Eastern Han Dynasty
- The color-painted breast-feeding mother of the Eastern Han Dynasty
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- The breast-feeding pottery figurine
- Unearthed from an Eastern Han-Dynasty tomb in Changsha of Hunan Province, this is a red-based pottery figurine featuring a mother breast-feeding her baby.
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- A stick-holding female figurine
- A stick-holding female figurine
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- A mirror-holding female figurine
- It was excavated from an Eastern Han-Dynasty tomb in Yongfeng Township of Chengdu, Sichuan.
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- The color-painted naked female figurine in the Western Han Dynasty
- It was excavated from a pit in the Yangling Mausoleum in Xi'an.
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- The cook figurine
- Wearing a tall chef's hat and turning up his sleeves, the smiling cook looks like he is itching to have a go.
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- The dough-making figurine
- The figurine features a servant kneeling on the ground and kneading dough.
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- The food-serving maid fingurine
- This pottery figurine is a maid holding a food tray in her left hand and a wine pot in her right hand to serve the guest.
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- The color-painted pottery figurine of a guard of honor
- Unearthed from a mid-Western Han-Dynasty tomb in the Beidong Mountain.
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- The green-glazed liubo-playing pottery figurines
- Liubo is an ancient Chinese board game played with dice. In the game, the players accumulate points or "fishes", with each "fish" earning two chips.
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- The gray pottery figurine of a fence sitter
- Unearthed from Xinzhuang Brick Field in Jiyuan City of Henan Province, the sculpture is 11cm long, 7.3cm wide and 11cm tall.
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- The qin-playing figurine
- The figurine wears a turban on the head, and a long robe with a round-necked shirt underneath.
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- The zither-playing figurine
- The zither-playing figurine is lifelike, with rich facial expressions.
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- The se-playing figurine
- Wearing a flat-topped turban, a round-necked shirt and a right-lapelled robe with broad sleeves, the figurine is plucking the strings in a half kneeling position.
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- A red pottery sheng-blowing figurine of the Eastern Han Dynasty
- A red pottery sheng-blowing figurine of the Eastern Han Dynasty
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- The color-painted music playing figurines
- These are the color-painted yu-blowing and se-playing figurines unearthed from Tomb No. 1 of the Mawangdui Site in Changsha.
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- The red-glazed pottery figurine group of musicians and dancers
- The musicians and dancers featured in this figurine group are lifelike, perfectly formed and in right proportion.
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- The dancing figurine
- This pottery figurine captured the moment when the man was joyfully dancing.
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- The exaggerated dancing figurine of the Western Han Dynasty
- This is a color-painted one-arm figurine of the Han Dynasty.
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- The musician figurines of the early Eastern Han Dynasty
- The figurine group features a total of six musicians, including two dancers - a man and a woman, and four accompanists.
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- The narrating and singing figurine
- The figurine is holding a mallet in the right hand, just about to beat the drum held in the right arm.
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- The narrating and singing figurine unearthed in Songjialin, Pixian County
- It was unearthed from an Eastern Han tomb in Songjialin of Pixian County in Sichuan.
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- The contortionist figurine of the Western Han Dynasty
- The striking feature of the figurine is the imbalance of his body.
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- The hand-standing acrobat figurine
- This sculpture was discovered among some entertaining figurines of the Han Dynasty.
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- The two hand-standing figurines on a pottery vessel
- On a three-legged pottery vessel, two acrobats are holding the rim with both hands, lifting up the arched body, with the head facing down.
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- Three hand-standing acrobat figurines
- Unearthed in Qilihe of Luoyang, Henan Province, the three acrobat figurines are hand-standing on a round jar.
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- The acrobat figurines on a toilet case
- This type of Han-Dynasty toilet case with two hand-standing acrobat figurines is quite rare.
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- The comedian figurine
- There were two types of entertainers in ancient times - music performers and comedians.
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- The juggler figurine of the Western Han Dynasty
- This juggler figurine has a cone-shaped head, a long nose and a wide open mouth.
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- The color-painted pottery figurines of musicians and acrobats of the Western Han Dynasty
- This pottery sculpture was excavated from the Han Dynasty Tomb No. 11 in the south of Wuying Mountain on the northern suburbs of Jinan, Shandong.
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- The figurine group of "one hundred play" performers
- Unearthed from a Han tomb in Shaogou of Luoyang, Henan Province, the figurines range from 5.1 to 14.5 cm in height.
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