The dressed figures with paint include warriors, female servants, and cavalries. The dressed warriors average about 62cm in height. Their bodies were originally painted with flesh color while the hair, the eyebrow and the pupils were black. The figures were originally fixed with flexible wooden arms and were wearing real military robes made of silk and linen and leather armors. After all these years being covered underground, the wooden arms and clothes have rotted. The arm-less pottery figures appeared as nudes when discovered.
The dressed female figures averaging about 58 cm in height were originally painted with flesh color of orange and white while the hair, the eyebrow and the pupils were black. The eyes, the nostril, the ears, the navel, the genitals are clearly cut. Their silk clothes and wooden arms have decayed due to the same reason.
The dressed cavalries are in the posture of riding. Their military robes and leather armors have decayed too.
The figures of Han Dynasty are a group of realistic masterpiece developed on the foundation of art of the Qin Dynasty. Though the figures are only two thirds of real size, they pay attention to details without defects of disproportion. Every part on their body is in perfect proportion, especially the facial area, on which the five organs are exquisitely made. Every face of the figures is in good mood but have their own individualities, which shows the strong infectious vitality and manifest the advanced carving skills of the Han artists.
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