A GROUP OF THREE PAINTED POTTERY MUSICIANS TANG DYNASTY

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A GROUP OF THREE PAINTED POTTERY MUSICIANS TANG DYNASTY
Variously playing a flute and two types of drums, modeled kneeling on a square base wearing long striped robes with traces of red, black, orange and turquoise pigments, their black hair dressed in elaborate loops, traces of a floral motif on their foreheads above facial details in red and black, one drum detachable, end of flute missing, restored
8in. (20cm.) high (3)

拍品专文

Several of these seated female musicans are published. A pottery figure holding a waisted drum similar to one included in the present lot, was unearthed in 1976 from the tomb of Niu Jinda in Liquan County, and was included in the exhibition, Treasures of Chang'an, Hong Kong Museum of Art, October 15, 1993-January 2, 1994, Catalogue, no. 78; and a pair with similar coif and dress, one holding a flute, as in the present lot, from the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, p. 213, figs. 246 and 248. Other comparable pairs are illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 113, figs. 185 and 186; and in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1961, p. 238, fig. 180