Lot 226
226
TWO PAINTED STUCCO HEADS OF FEMALE ATTENDANTS

Details
TWO PAINTED STUCCO HEADS OF FEMALE ATTENDANTS
SONG/MING DYNASTY

Each well-modeled face with the small mouth painted dark red and the eyes and brows detailed in black against the stark white of the skin, the black hair pulled back and gathered into two topknots covered by a red cloth decorated with black ornaments and tied in back, some cracking and loss of pigment
13 3/4 and 13½in. (34.9 and 34.3cm.) high, stands (2)

Lot Essay

These heads appear to be following a tradition of earlier painted stucco examples. See the head of a bodhisattva of Tang dynasty date from Kumtura, Central Asia, included in the Exhibition of Eastern Art, Tokyo National Museum, 1968, Catalogue, no. 1070, pp. 179 and 262