Painted Chimera

Tang Dynasty chimera sits on a horseshoe-shaped platform, with a human face, wearing a pointed hat with the tip folded down, large ears on each side, eyes looking upward, thick eyebrows, bulging eyes, big nose, wide mouth, many beards, and a face like a barbarian. The body is the body of an animal, with two wings on its shoulders, and its feet are like cow hooves. The soil is white, and the whole body is painted with red ink, and the traces of strokes with thick and thin stripes under the abdomen are obvious. People in the Tang Dynasty believed that such monsters could expel diseases and monsters

Abdomen Barbarian Beards Believed Bulging Ceramics Chimera Diseases Ears Expel Eyebrows Figurine Glazed Hooves Monsters Obvious Pointed Soil Strokes Tang Thick Traces Upward

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