Tang Dynasty Pottery Figure of a Guard gravegoods Donald Jackson

Donald Jackson

or offerings of food for the afterlife

Discolouring and glazing flaws

while the neck and shoulder are decorated with vertical incised linear motifs

Tang Dynasty Pottery Figure of a Guard gravegoods Donald JacksonTang Dynasty, c. 618907 AD, China A fine hollow moulded terracotta guardian soldier from the Tang Dynasty, depicted standing in a commanding pose. The figure wears a long sleeved hooded robe, cinched at the waist with a horizontal band, over long trousers. His hands are positioned as if once grasping a weaponthe longitudinal piercing through the right hand confirming that the statuette originally held an armament, now lost. The garment is carefully