Japanese Haniwa Female Pottery Sculpture, top Vintage Japanese Funeral Ritual Coil Pottery Figure

A totally intriguing Japanese Haniwa pottery lady which measures 14 x 5 x 5.5 inches. This is a vintage reproduction of an ancient ceremonial funeral pottery piece which was made in ancient Japan. In very good vintage condition.

The Haniwa (埴輪) are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan. Haniwa were created according to the wazumi technique, in which mounds of coiled clay were built up to shape the figure top, layer by layer.