TWO PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURES OF COURT LADIES

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TWO PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURES OF COURT LADIES
HAN DYNASTY

Each similarly modeled, the larger of the two standing, the other kneeling, both dressed in full robes with long swagged sleeves and wide trains, covered in a white slip and painted in red with details on the sleeves and wide lapels, the separately modeled heads with serene expressions below tightly coiffed hair parted in the center, both with circular apertures at the wrist for the insertion of hands--26in. and 18 3/4in. (66cm. and 47.6cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

For figures similar to the standing lady, see Arts of the Han Dynasty at the Osaka Municipal Museum, Kandai No Bijitsu, 1975, Catalogue, no. 21; the Charles B. Hoyt Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 13- March 30, 1952, Catalogue, no. 67; and the example illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, no. 124. For the kneeling lady, compare the example in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha, 1981, vol. 9, no. 9

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766d36 is consistent with the dating of this lot