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^o Chinese Pottery and Porcelain
Sheng Tsung of the Liao d\'nasty (1030 a.d.) the departure of the
cortege of death from the palace was marked by a sacrifice, at which
they took clothes, bows and arrows, saddles, bridles, pictures of
horses, of camels, lifeguards, and similar things, which were all
committed to the flames." Marco Polo,^ in describing the city of
Kinsai, relates that the inhabitants burnt their dead, and " threw
into the flames many pieces of cotton paper upon which were
painted representations of male and female servants, horses, camels,
silk wrought with gold, as well as gold and silver money."
1 Who visited China about 1280.
