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TANG DYNASTY, 7TH-EARLY 8TH CENTURY
Details
Two Painted Buff Pottery Figures of Court Ladies
Tang dynasty, 7th-early 8th century
Each slender standing figure wearing long robes, one with a shawl draped around her shoulders and over her hands, her hair dressed in two topknots, the other wearing a striped skirt and a black hood over her long hair which falls to her waist in back, with traces of black and red pigment
10¼ and 10in. (26 and 25.4cm.) high, stands
Falk Collection no. 7. (2)
Tang dynasty, 7th-early 8th century
Each slender standing figure wearing long robes, one with a shawl draped around her shoulders and over her hands, her hair dressed in two topknots, the other wearing a striped skirt and a black hood over her long hair which falls to her waist in back, with traces of black and red pigment
10¼ and 10in. (26 and 25.4cm.) high, stands
Falk Collection no. 7. (2)
Provenance
Plaut, Peking, April 1937.
Exhibited
One figure on loan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965
[L65.46.15].
[L65.46.15].