Marble tomb sculpture, with the name of the deceased, his father, his profession, his age.
The pose is not known to have been used in any other British painting, but was frequently seen in contemporary tomb sculpture.
Many of the Tang ceramics on the market today are tomb sculptures and vessels.
Tang artists were not the first to make tomb sculptures.
The importance of the game in Mesoamerican culture is brought home by a pair of tomb sculptures, identified as a matrimonial couple.
He and his wife, Lillian, acquired a notable collection of Chinese tomb sculptures.
The tombs and the tomb sculptures in the temple all dates from the 12th century, and have been meticulously restored.
Another offering is a set of three tomb sculptures.
The smallest, a single vertical on a square base, is a kind of workaday obelisk or tomb sculpture.
One of its primary inspirations was an ancient form of tomb sculpture called haniwa.