ChineseSculpture20140103Today’s Sketch is more from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s China collection. Both are from the Tang Dynasty (between 618 and 907) the first is a Lokapala Guardian King the second is a tomb attendant. I’ve always liked the tomb attendants as a reference for faces and period costumes (of course since most of them are broad caricatures of ethnic minorities it is easy to imagine them as the era’s equivalent of a lawn jockey.)