Lot 121
121
A Tang-style glazed white stoneware pouring vessel, modelled as a wine merchant, 20th Century or earlier
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A Tang-style glazed white stoneware pouring vessel, modelled as a wine merchant, 20th Century or earlier

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A Tang-style glazed white stoneware pouring vessel, modelled as a wine merchant, 20th Century or earlier
crouching with one knee raised, holding a large gourd and wearing a fur trimmed coat with a purse attached to his left hip and with bracelets applied to his wrists, his smiling face with Western Asiatic features, large eyes and nose, pronounced cheek bones, thin elongated moustache above a stubble, and his hair finely groomed in ringlets -- 14 3/8in. (37.5cm.) high.
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For an almost identical figural vessel, see Idemitsu Museum 'Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection', Tokyo 1987, plate 355.
For an entire white glazed figure as well as a Western Asiatic head fragment excavated from Duan Boyang's tomb at Hansenzhai, Xi'an, which is dated to 667, see 'Jieshao jijian Shaanxi chutu de Tang dai qingciqi' (Some pieces of Tang celadon excavated in Shaanxi Province), Wenwu, 1960, volume 4, figures 2 and 3.

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