Quote Originally Posted by Intranetusa
Well I've seen pictures of actual metal "paper-clip" like stitching that held together the plates in a similar bronze & jade lammellar armor piece. So maybe the artist just couldn't represent the intricacies of true lammellar with a ceramic statue?
No, the Chinese knew their lamellar perfectly well. That on the terra-cotta soldier is, however, coat-of-plates - (in this case) square plates riveted directly onto each other and/or backing.

Lamellar is the sort where you have a godawful lot of little vertical strips held together with lacing. Here's one example of the construction - although this one would be of decidedly simple type, given that lamellae might well have something like a dozen holes in them for the lacing...
Actually, are the English soldiers in the movie Braveheart wearing coat of plates or lammellar?
Should be coat-of-plates. Lamellar was almost never seen further west than east-central Europe after Antiquity, not counting the rare Eastern harness sometimes encountered on a particularly wealthy and/or well-traveled Scandinavian.

Coat-of-plates on the other hand was a "cheap and cheerful" solution for most of your body armour needs, what now kind of on the heavy side.