A Set of Three Large Sichuan Painted Pottery Figures of Entertainers

HAN DYNASTY

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A Set of Three Large Sichuan Painted Pottery Figures of Entertainers
Han Dynasty
Including a dancer, a seated singer and a seated musician playing a lute, all wearing layered robes, the dancer's with an apron of ribbon-hung panels, all with an assymetrical winged hairdo and small, delicate facial features, traces of pigment and earth encrustation
25.5/8in., 21 and 22in. (65, 54.6 and 57.8cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Another group of three entertainers, also comprising a dancer, singer and lute player, in the collection of the Muse Cernuschi, was included in the exhibition at the musuem, Chine connue & inconnue, October 1992 - February 1993, p. 99. The figures in this latter group are more simply modeled. Another lute player, also with flowers decorating her hairdo, is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Sculpture Gallery, The Shanghai Museum, 1996, no. 5.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C199q41 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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