This thesis focuses on pottery figurines excavated from tombs of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) at Sichuan province. Through investigating the nature of these figurines, their types, forms, history and use in tombs in the Song Dynasty, this thesis explores the features of Song Dynasty funeral art, and reveals how the funeral art in China transformed after the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE). Pottery figurines in tombs of the Song Dynasty mainly center on two themes: secular life and funeral deities. Those related to the former theme are servants who look after the daily life of the tomb-master in the underground world, while others include funeral gods and deities recorded in fengshui books and funeral records of the Song and Yuan (1271-1368 CE) periods. The different development of pottery figurines related to the two themes reflects the changes of the funeral art in the Song Dynasty and highlights local diversity as its main feature. This thesis deals with the classification of pottery figurines and the identification of their natures, two issues not fully resolved in previous research, by studying their physical features, such as size, clothing and pedestals. Further, it adopts two new approaches to Sichuan pottery figurines. First, instead of taking figurines found in tombs in Chengdu to represent the whole area as most previous studies did, the thesis draws references from tombs in different parts of Sichuan. Second, it examines the nature of pottery figurines, reasons for their selection and their use in funerary space by comparing them with post-Tang Dynasty religious art including images, sculptures and architecture. Through this case study of pottery figurines found in Sichuan, this thesis will show that (1) the Song Dynasty witnessed the transformation of funeral art from emphasizing both the funeral deities and the seculars in the Tang and the Five Dynasties (907-960 CE) to having a solo stress on the secular life in the Yuan and the Ming (1368-1644 CE) periods. In Sichuan, this change happened in the middle of the Southern Song. (2) Diversity was common for funeral art at the local level. Except for some typical figurines, physical characteristics of most pottery figurines and the period of them being used in tombs differed not only from place to place, but even also within one single region. (3) Song-Dynasty tombs in Sichuan created a worship space in tombs by modelling the placement of both pottery funeral deities and the seculars on that of the statues of gods in religious architecture.