Two Painted Pottery Figures of Foreign Boys
Two Painted Pottery Figures of Foreign Boys

TANG DYNASTY

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Two Painted Pottery Figures of Foreign Boys
Tang Dynasty
The smaller well modeled in grey pottery, the taller and more slender from buff pottery, each shown wearing a breech-cloth tied over short pantaloons, the taller figure also wearing a necklace and scarf draped around the torso, each with curly hair but of different ethnic type, with traces of red pigment
10 and 113/8in. (25.4 and 28.9cm.) high (2)
Exhibited
Taller figure:
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Seeking Immortality: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Schloss Collection, 20 September 1998 - 3 January 1999, no. 88.
Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 6 October 1996 - 16 March 1997, no. 88.

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