TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

For an earlier bronze prototype, featuring a cart with a similar sloping, divided roof, dating to the Northern Dynasties, see Zhongguo wenwu jinghua (Gems of China's Cultural Relics), Beijing, 1993, no. 98. See, also, a dark brown-glazed cart of similar form shown with an ox and two figures, dated to the Six dynasties period, illustrated by J. Rawson, The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, New York, 1992, p. 144, fig. 92.