Pottery Music Listener

In the mid and late Eastern Han dynasty, the pottery center transferred from Xi’an and Luoyang to Sichuan, where society was stable, economy was prosperous and the people attached importance to enjoyments both in this and the other worlds. Some funerary objects, such as the female pottery music listener, were modeled on recreations and articles in real life. This female pottery figure kneels with the upper part of her body straight. She is wholly absorbed in the music so that she could not help putting her hand behind her ear. The soundless music inspired by the pottery figure seems to be lingering around us. The molded Sichuan pottery figure is sandy. After longtime burial underground, her smiling facial features are vague. This figure displays the typical characteristics of Sichuan pottery figure and is from the area of Pengshan.