香港大專學生社會服務隊
Hong Kong College Students
Social Service Team A female figure in Tang Dynasty (618-907) |
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Found in the tomb of ZhangXiong and his wife, Qu in Turfan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 1973. The body has a wooden frame with paper padding. The sleeveless jacket is of jin silk. The shawl is of figured silk with resist-dying patterns of circles. The skirt is made of alternating strips of patterned silks of two different colours sewn together. This figure provides an excellent illustration of the makeup and hairstyles of the fashionable ladies of the Tang period. |
| The head is modeled in clay and painted white, with make up in the latest fashion of the time. |  |
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sleeveless jacket is of jin silk, woven to scale with two medallions
composed of confronted birds within a pearl roundel, westernized
motifs and woven locally. |
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| The shawl is of figured silk with resist-dying patterns of circles. The resist-dying technique became very popular during the Tang dynasty. |  |
The immense amount of care and labour that went into making one of the numerous figures associated with the burial of Lady Qu in this tomb is indicative of the prosperity of Turfan after its incorporation into the Tang Empire in 640. Sources of information: China - Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750AD, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Yale university Press
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