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Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Shanghai Museum - Statues and Carvings



Sculpture got going much later than bronze casting in China. It really had to wait for Buddhism to take hold. The heyday appears to be the Tang Dynasty. Wooden carvings are from a little later.







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