TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A RARE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The figure is shown standing in a respectful pose with head lowered and holding a small jar covered in a blue cloth. She wears a well-modeled three-quarter-length tunic belted below the waist. Her face is modeled with delicate features set in a slight smile flanked by small dimples, and her hair is parted in the center and drawn back into a bun tied with a ribbon that falls onto the shoulders. There are traces of extensive orange-red, black, blue and turquoise pigments.
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high, lucite stand

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 4 December 1985, lot 133.

Exhibited

Belgium, Ming-ch'i, May 1981, no. 12.

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Lot Essay

A similarly attired straw-glazed figure, without the cloth-draped jar, in the Osaka Municipal Museum, is illustrated in Zui to No Bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1976, p. 22, no. 1-184 (left).

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 366n21 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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