CIVIL OFFICIAL ON A HIGH PEDESTAL

Description Official standing on a high pedestal. He wears a long tunic up to his feet, the tips barely protruting from it, under a shorter jacket with the left flap crossed over the right. The jacket has huge sleeves that down over the hem of the jacket itself. The officer wears 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 above a slightly pinkish and unstable slip. The rest of the body is glazed in ochre, green and cream. This statue is thought to have been produced in the early 8th century CE in Shaanxi or more likely Henan, where the three-color glazing (sancai) technique was developed. This statuette forms a pair with another one (Cc/2a). Officials are commonly found in pair within the same funerary context.