Catalogue No.7
China: Tang/Song Dynasty [ 618-1279 ]
Length: 1.7/8in [ 4.8cm ]
Length: 1.7/8in [ 4.8cm ]
A pale celadon jade model of a seated Central Asian tribute bearer weaing pleated robes, the curled hair
with a hair band, a Buddhist lion recumbent before him
Reference:
Plate 42 A & B Oriental Ceramics Society 1960-62 Vol. 33
The cosmopolitan nature of Tang society is well known and is demonstrated by certain of the abundant tomb figures from this period. Dancers, actors and musicians from Central and Western Asia, slaves and boy servants from Bactria and Northwest India, dwarfs, Semitic merchants, Turkic and Persian characters and a type with a "cap of curls" and Graeco-Roman style draperies are all represented to give us a vivid picture of the varied ethnic types present in the Tang society.
In Chinese Jades from Han to Ching, Watt states that Iranians were known to have brought dogs as tribute to China in the eighth century.
Plate 42 A & B Oriental Ceramics Society 1960-62 Vol. 33
The cosmopolitan nature of Tang society is well known and is demonstrated by certain of the abundant tomb figures from this period. Dancers, actors and musicians from Central and Western Asia, slaves and boy servants from Bactria and Northwest India, dwarfs, Semitic merchants, Turkic and Persian characters and a type with a "cap of curls" and Graeco-Roman style draperies are all represented to give us a vivid picture of the varied ethnic types present in the Tang society.
In Chinese Jades from Han to Ching, Watt states that Iranians were known to have brought dogs as tribute to China in the eighth century.