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PLATE VIII
Figure of a dignified personage in rich robes and elaborate
headdress standing with folded hands on a rock-pedestal.
Soft white pottery unglazed, but richly pigmented in black,
red, and green. The robes are carefully modelled and decorated
with brocade patterns in colour (much of which has worn away),
and the ends of the skirt are frilled. Persons of the same
ministerial aspect have been found in princely tombs. Who
they represent, is a matter of debate. The latest contribution
on the subject by M. Pelliot {T'oung-pao, March, 1923) leaves
the question still open. If they are ministers, then, he thinks,
they must be ministers of a spiritual kingdom.
T'ang dynasty. H. 41".
In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos.
