Three-color official figurines

[Three color figurines of officials]

Three color figurines of officials, Tang Dynasty, 102.2 cm high and 25 cm wide
The figurines of civil officials wear crowns, eyebrows, eyes, and whiskers are all painted in ink, and they wear wide-sleeved clothes on the top, clothes on the bottom, crotch on the outside, feet on the cloud shoes of Ruyi’s head, hands in hand, and rectangular holes in the middle, which are supposed to be used for inserting watts. The foot is a pedestal
The crotch, also known as “two pawns”, is the chest and the back. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, most of the knights wore the crotch with armor for the purpose of defending the body, while most of the knights wore the crotch without armor