A LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A LADY

HAN POTTERY FIGURES

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A LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A LADY
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

The tall, slender figure shown with hands hidden within the full sleeves of her long robes which are tightly gathered around her legs before flaring widely to the sides, the various layered robes visible at the neck and chest as molded, V-shaped necklines painted in red, white and then the black border of the outermost pink robe, with red-dotted black border at the sleeve edges, which falls to the tops of her broad U-shaped shoes in front and in back is gathered up in a sweeping curve above the white under-robe, the face molded with soft features detailed in red and black on the pinkish flesh and the long black hair pulled back behind the shoulders and dressed in a thick knot with trailing end in the center of the back, with traces of orangy-red pigment
25in.(63.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Compare the smaller but closely related figure with similar depiction of sleeves and hair, from Shaanxi province, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 70, no. 85, dated to the Western Han. See, also, the Western Han figure included in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Qin Han, Diaosu; Diaosu (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts, Qin and Han Sculpture; Sculpture) vol. 2, Beijing, 1985, p. 53, no. 53, excavated from Lintong Xian, Shaanxi province and now in the Shaanxi Lintong Xian Museum

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 866b59 is consistent with the dating of this lot