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Maidservant

From book "My First Ninety Years"
China, early Tang (618-907)
coloured terracotta
h. 31 cm
MGZ 4755

In a remarkable way, this figure combined reality and imagination. This is a funeral and ritual statue, done only as a grave offering, and yet reveals some details of the life of the time (the hairstyle and the shoes).

Literature: Šterk, Slavko. Tilla Durieux and Her Art Collection in Zagreb. Zagreb: Zagreb City Museum, 1986, p. 50