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Figurine of tonsure man holding box Back

Wangye Museum

Wangye Museum
Shenzhen, China

The visual shape is a young man holds a box and stands on the quadrate pedestal. Hair of the young man has a center parting, two wisps of hair lolling on chest, was painted with black color, the calvaria was tonsured with no hair, and laid green color on it to express the effect of down. This tonsure hairstyle is not in the Hans, it is the habitude of Liao's Khitan, Jin's Nuchen, and Yuan's Mongol. This tonsure shape was frequently seen in the grave mural of Liao, Jin, and Yuan. The Feng Feng mining area of Handan, Hebei province, at where it has the "Gui Xiannu Tomb" which in the third year of Taihe(C.E.1203) period, unearth an analogous figurine, lesser size. The figurine, from the decorations that the cloth and the tonsure, it can be affirm that the man is different race or the Han who accepted the hairstyle of different race, the most probably that he should be the Jin people.

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  • Title: Figurine of tonsure man holding box Back
  • Date Created: late 12th - early 13th century
  • Physical Dimensions: Height 23.6 cm
  • Type: Porcelain
Wangye Museum

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