| Showing from tomorrow (December 21) until March 19 next year at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, "The Silk Road: Treasures from Xinjiang" exhibition features 115 treasures collected from various museums, archaeological institutions and cultural departments in Xinjiang. On display are rarely seen gold ornaments, bronze ware, wooden slips with Kharosthi script, textile products, Zoroastrian funerary items, relics of Manichaeism and Buddhism, revealing the diverse cultural developments of the Western Regions from the Bronze Age to the 14th century. Pictured is a pottery rhyton in the shape of a human head made in Tang dynasty (618-907). This rhyton is sculpted into a human head and the lower part of the artifact is missing. This is a fine example of a mixture of the functional and the decorative. The high cheek bones, tall nose, big ears of the man are features often found in the Tang ceramic figures of the "huren", or "foreigner". |
