Ancient Mortuary Traditions of China. Papers on Chinese Ceramic Funerary Sculptures.
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991. 4to. 105 pp. Soft Covers, Very Good with minor creasing to cover, previous owner's stamp on FFEP, some yellow high-lighting. Plates. Conference publication for Symposium which took place "at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 5 and 6, 1987, in conjunction with the exhibition The quest for eternity"--Title page verso." Essays include: The quest of etenity in ancient China: the dead, their gifts, their names / David N. Keightley; Mountain tombs and jade burial suits: preparations for eternity in the Western Han / Robert L. Thorp; A new look at the Xianbei and their impact on Chinese culture / Albert Dien; The twelve calendrical animals in Tang tombs / Judy Chungwa Ho; Tombs guaridan figurines: their evolution and iconography / Mary H. Fong. Item #15-10952
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