Lot Essay
See for an almost identical figure Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiijintang Collection, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 80-81, no. 117
JIN OR NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY
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A painted pottery figure of a foreign warrior
Jin or Northern Wei Dynasty
The figure with one leg in kneeling position, legs and feet simply modelled and hollowed with a V-shaped cut-out, wears a close-fitting sectioned helmet with tall finial, large bulging eyes and nose, curled up moustache and exposed teeth, wearing a tunic of fish-scale armour and short sleeves with an incised band (restaurations)
53 cm high
Jin or Northern Wei Dynasty
The figure with one leg in kneeling position, legs and feet simply modelled and hollowed with a V-shaped cut-out, wears a close-fitting sectioned helmet with tall finial, large bulging eyes and nose, curled up moustache and exposed teeth, wearing a tunic of fish-scale armour and short sleeves with an incised band (restaurations)
53 cm high