A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL
TANG DYNASTY

Shown standing in a formal posture atop a pierced rockwork base with hands clasped and pierced to hold a gui tablet, wearing a splash-glazed breastplate over a short amber robe with straw-glazed borders, the glaze draining onto the long green-tinged, straw-glazed skirt from which the green cloud-toe shoes protrude, the face and official's cap unglazed and bearing traces of pigment
40½in. (102.9cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a similar figure of this type and size, shown as one of a pair, in the Royal Ontario Museum, included in the exhibition, Silk Roads - China Ships, Toronto, 1983, Catalogue, p. 47 (on the left in the illustration); and another illustrated by Prof. Liu Liang-yu, Early Wares: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics 1, Taiwan, 1991, p. 246 (top right)
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 866b70 is consistent with the dating of this lot