Only a handful of human figures from the pre-Han period are preserved. The majority of these represent kneeling servants and some evidently were intended as supports for trays and lamp-holders. The figure here illustrated, and another of a leather-clad solder attributed to the Han period, are the only examples of silver statuary surviving from early times. The dating of the dwarfrests on the treatment of the face, which relates it to some of the bronze figures datable to the 5th – 3rd centuries BC

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