A Pair of Unusual Olive-Glazed Red Pottery Figures of Ladies

EARLY TANG DYNASTY

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A Pair of Unusual Olive-Glazed Red Pottery Figures of Ladies
Early Tang dynasty
One a musician holding a waisted drum, her hair dressed in two topknots, the other with tall wing-shaped coiffure, each slender figure wearing an unglazed jacket over a long pleated overskirt covered in an olive glaze, as is the shawl of the musician, traces of white and black pigment
11 and 105/8in. (28 and 27cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The two figures are elegantly modeled in an unusually thin manner, suggesting the early Tang period as their date of manufacture. A musician figure with a similarly pleated gown in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by Fontein and Wu, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, vol. 10, 1980, no. 46. Compare, also, a figure in the Museé Guimet illustrated by Desroches, Compagnons d'éternité, Paris, 1997, p. 250, (bottom) left.

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