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Lot Essay
In her dress, figure and coiffure, the lady strongly resembles those court ladies shown in the mural on the eastern wall of the front chamber of the tomb of the Princess Yongtai, who was buried in AD 706, and whose tomb was unearthed in 1960 in Qian county, Shaanxi province.
Figures of court ladies with their hair in this high double top-knot have been illustrated by R.L. Hobson in The Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1927, vol. I, pl. XLIV, no. 294. Figures of this type were also illustrated by Moss in Exhibition of Chinese Pottery Burial Objects of Sui and T'ang Dynasties, London, 1970, no. 72. Similar figures were also sold in New York in May 1990.
Figures of court ladies with their hair in this high double top-knot have been illustrated by R.L. Hobson in The Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1927, vol. I, pl. XLIV, no. 294. Figures of this type were also illustrated by Moss in Exhibition of Chinese Pottery Burial Objects of Sui and T'ang Dynasties, London, 1970, no. 72. Similar figures were also sold in New York in May 1990.