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Figures of plump ladies in long flowing robes are a
classic Tang dynasty image which continued well
into the Five Dynasties period. Compare the images
of plump court ladies with similar hairstyles and long
flowing robes in painted marble reliefs in the tomb of
Wang Chuzi (died 923.AD) in Xiyanchuan, Quyang,
Hebei Province, published in ‘Wu Dai Wang Chuzhi
Mu’, in Wenwu, Beijing, 1998, pp.33-57. Compare
also with a smaller seated white marble female
figure, Tang dynasty, excavated from Nianliwang
village, Changan county, Shaanxi Province,
illustrated in Wu Hua Tian Bo: Tangdai Guizu de
Wuzhi Shenghuo, Hong Kong, 1993, p.49, no.8.
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