China: Painted wooden tomb figurine of a servant, Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), Shanghai Museum

This grave figurine is abstract and modernistic in appearance. Traces of red paint, representing textile patterns, remain on the figure's carved robe.

Typically of costume in this period, the face is the only visible part of the attendant's body; even her hands are concealed and clasped beneath long sleeves, in the formal posture of waiting for orders.

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