Ancient Chinese art.

The Magazine Antiques | September 1, 1998| | Copyright

Perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century was made accidentally in 1974 when farmers digging a well in central China unearthed the first figure in what turned out to be a terra-cotta army near the ancient tomb of Chinas first emperor Qin Shihuang. As excavated today, the site is bigger than a football field and is populated by some seven thousand life-sized warriors, six hundred horses, more than one hundred chariots, and tens of thousands of bronze weapons. Eleven of these figures form the set piece in an exhibition of 115 works of art on ...

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