These photos are from a wonderful museum in Xian,the Shaanxi Museum. The woman who designed this museum's architecture is well known and revered by the Chinese people (and *I* have forgotten her name). The museum is focused around pottery and metalworks from local history. There are four of the original Terra Cotta Warriors also inside, and copies of the two intact chariots.
 The outside of the Museum grounds |
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 Courtyard of the Museum grounds |
 A group of pottery and brass urns |
 This is an amazing, VERY tiny gold jaguar, with incredible detail and realism |
 A four legged bowl in a porcelain style; individual colors and glazes were used. |
 This is the prized posession, a carved stone cup representing a lying down water buffalo. The grain in the stone is used to make the patterns of the body, |
 A tri glazed Tang Dynasty horse; the tri glaze was famous from this area. It is three separate glazes used on top of each other, in tan, green and brown. |
 A tri glazed god of good luck |
 A small teapot |
 A tri glazed Djini, or genie |
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