A Large Well-Modeled Painted Pottery Figure of a Court Lady

TANG DYNASTY

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A Large Well-Modeled Painted Pottery Figure of a Court Lady
Tang Dynasty
Her full figure gracefully swayed to one side while her head tilts in the opposite direction, her hands held away from the body within the draped sleeves of her heavy robes which are incised with the squared neckline and the draped black scarf, her face modeled with full cheeks and delicate features set in a sweet expression below an elaborate hairdo
25in. (64.1cm.) high, box

拍品專文

This impressive, large figure is similar in stance and style of hairdo to a slightly smaller figure (53.4cm.) illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, p. 67, no. 178. See, also, the figure with similar incised detailing of the dress and scarf and with the same very full body, but with her hands held in a different position, included in the Exhibition of Eastern Art, Tokyo National Museum, 1968, p. 84, no. 380 and another cradling a dog in her arms, no. 379.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C199x65 is consistent with the dating of this lot.