Lot Essay
Compare a very similar group of twenty-one male and female painted pottery figures illustrated by Gisèle Croës, Ritual Objects and Chinese Buddhist Art, March 2004, pp. 84-91, no. 21.
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AFTERNOON SESSION
AT 2:00 PM PRECISELY
(LOTS 242-449)
EARLY CERAMICS
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A GROUP OF SIX PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF ATTENDANTS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
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A GROUP OF SIX PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF ATTENDANTS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Each modelled as a slim, moustached male servant, wearing fitted layered robes, with long hair pulled back into a loop at the back of the neck, and with small, delicate facial features, with blue, ochre and cream pigments
10¾ to 11 1/8 in. (27.2 to 28.2 cm.) high (6)
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Each modelled as a slim, moustached male servant, wearing fitted layered robes, with long hair pulled back into a loop at the back of the neck, and with small, delicate facial features, with blue, ochre and cream pigments
10¾ to 11 1/8 in. (27.2 to 28.2 cm.) high (6)