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Cup with spout
Cup with ibex
Akshobya
Box for paper and documents
Candlestick base
Safavid tile
Commentary on the 40 Traditions
Fragment of Prabhamandala
Ushnishavijaya
Stupa with cosmic Buddhas
Mamluk Ampoule
Prajñaparamita manuscript with double cover
Winter landscape at a watercourse
Tamon-Ten
Akshobhya the Buddha of the eastern direction
Mirror box
Inro with Tokaido stations
glass thu
Hu vase with painted decoration
Urn for the soul (Hunping)
Reclining Buddha in Parinirvana
Fox dance
Architectural fragment with Shiva and a Vyala
Anthropomorphic neck jar
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Jnana Dakshinamurti
Head of Vishnu
Shalabhanjika
destroy
Worship of Krishna
Head of a bearded man (Silenus or Atlas)
Buddha and ascetic
The defeat of Mara
Shakyamuni Buddha on the throne of lions

Civil servant on high pedestal

Anonymous

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Figure standing above a high pedestal. The dignitary wears a long tunic down to the feet, the tips just protruding from it, under a shorter jacket with the left flap crossed over the right. It has huge cuffed sleeves that go down beyond the bottom hem of the jacket itself. The face has oriental features, and is characterized by the crested headdress (liangguan) worn by civil officials. The head and neck were cold painted: traces of black, red and orange pigments can be found on a slightly pink and unstable engobe. The rest of the body is glazed in ocher, green and cream colors. This statue should have been produced at the beginning of the eighth century in Shaanxi or more likely in Henan, where the three-color glazing technique (sancai) was developed. Together with Cc / 2a he was one of two officials who are often found in the same funerary context.
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Title: Civil servant on high pedestal

Author: Anonymous

Date: 7 - 8 sec. AD

Technique: Terracotta, pinkish-white engobe, sancai glazing and traces of pigments

Displayed in: MAO - Museum of Oriental Art

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