MALE NAKED FIGURE

Description Mannequins of this type had removable wooden arms fixed in the holes located at shoulder height. They were later dressed in clothes and possibly equipped with wooden weapons and shields. The figurine depicts a naked man in a rigid standing posture, with barely hinted anatomical parts and a well-characterized head. The face has the features of a young man, with long hair combed with a central scrim, gathered back and brought back in a bun on the upper part of the head. The body is thin, with only suggested bones and muscles: the chest and buttocks slightly pronounced, the toes incised, the genitals shaped in relief. The flesh-colored engobe almost entirely covers the figurine, but other pigments have not been preserved. These mannequins were widely used, during over a century, as part of the grave goods of imperial tombs and high Han nobility, and were mostly manufactured in the capital itself.