This one is also a Chinese traditional art - "jiao zh3 tao" (交趾陶). It's a sort of pottery. You can see it on temples, but not every temples. because it's very expensive. One jiao zh3 tao have to undergo 7 methods (draw - shape - dry - hollow out the back or bottom - heating on 1100 Celsius - painting colour - heating again on 800~850 Celsius ), and spend a lot of time. Because of its price, some temple couldn't afford it.
Its oldest name isn't "jiao zh3 tao" , the skill was named "nan2 tang4" (南燙). When Japanese came, they called this skill "jiao zh3 shao"(交趾燒) , I don't know why they called it "jiao zh3 shao" , but I guess they thought the shape is like your feet fingers (or like scissors) .
On this picture, it's a Phoenix, do you like it?
Another closer picture. It's beautiful, isn't it?
Reference: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/交趾陶
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