A Painted Grey Pottery Figure of an Attendant

HAN DYNASTY

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A Painted Grey Pottery Figure of an Attendant
Han Dynasty
The tall, slender figure solid-molded standing with hands placed one above the other and hollowed to hold a standard, wearing heavy, layered, tight-fitting robes flaring above the shoes, the face detailed in black with a mustache and the hair drawn-up into an angular topknot, traces of pink, red and black pigment
20in. (52cm.) high, box

拍品專文

This attendant, probably a servant, would have been part of a group of replicas of household members placed in the tomb to aid the deceased in the afterlife.

Compare a Han attendant also modeled in this more unusual manner, with the hands visible and modeled to hold an object, possibly a standard, and with separately modeled feet, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji; Diaosu Bian (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts; Sculpture), vol. 2, Beijing, 1985, p. 50, no. 51.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C199w66 is consistent with the dating of this lot.