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  • Figure of a dignitary wearing armour (oblique)
  • Figure of a dignitary wearing armour (oblique)
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Figure of a dignitary wearing armour

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  • Details

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    Associated place
    China (place of creation)
    Date
    1911 - 1925
    Material and technique
    earthenware, moulded, with incised decoration
    Dimensions
    56 x 14.5 x 7.9 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    earthenware
    Technique index
    moulded,
    moulded,
    incised,
    incised
    Object type index
    figurine
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
    Accession no.
    LI1301.408

  • Further reading

    University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. S15

Glossary

earthenware

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The Barlow Collection by the University of Sussex

    The Barlow Collection

    In its style, this figure is copying a Northern Wei (AD 386–534) model, but the flat modelling is not usually found in that period; for the more characteristic type of Wei dynasty figures compare one from a tomb in Luoyang, Henan province, in Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series on Chinese ceramics], vol.4, Shanghai, 2000, pl.238.

    The figure is very shallow, with the front modelled in relief, but the back flat. It is made of grey pottery, the face with clearly rendered features, wearing a flat round cap and a short coat with wide sleeves, crossed in front and revealing a stiff, somewhat angled piece of armour underneath, the long wide trousers largely covering the shoes, the garment folds and borders represented by incising.

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