[Tao Yang]
Tao Yang, Han, 12.8 cm high, 15 cm long
Grey pottery body. This sheep has a short neck, slightly spiral-shaped horns, drooping ears, short tail, fat body and short limbs. The work does not directly express the thick wool with the line carving method, but shows the thick wool with the short neck, fat body and short limbs. This method of evading the reality and avoiding the emptiness is the traditional expression method of ancient Chinese sculpture, which is completely different from the extreme realistic modeling method of western art
The ancients believed that the soul would not perish after death, so they should bury the objects owned by the deceased in order to continue to enjoy them in another world, which produced various images of figurines, including pottery sheep
![图片[1]-Pottery sheep-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Han dynasty/Sculpture/10163[1024].jpg)
