Editing Terracotta (section)

====China====
Chinese sculpture made great use of terracotta, with and without glazing and color, from a very early date. The famous [[Terracotta Army]] of Emperor [[Qin Shi Huang]], 209–210&nbsp;BCE, was somewhat untypical, and two thousand years ago [[relief]]s were more common, in tombs and elsewhere. Later Buddhist figures were often made in painted and glazed terracotta, with the [[Yixian glazed pottery luohans]], probably of 1150–1250, now in various Western museums, among the most prominent examples.<ref>Rawson, 140-145; Grove, 4</ref>  Brick-built tombs from the [[Han dynasty]] were often finished on the interior wall with bricks decorated on one face; the techniques included molded reliefs. Later tombs contained many figures of protective spirits and animals and servants for the afterlife, including the famous horses of the [[Tang dynasty]]; as an arbitrary matter of terminology these tend not to be referred to as terracottas.<ref>Rawson, 140-145,159-161</ref>