A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT

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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT
HAN DYNASTY

The slender figure shown standing in an obsequious pose wearing long layered robes in black and white with red borders gathered tightly around the legs before flaring out towards the base, the head of almost triangular section and with a cone-shaped nose above a straight mouth, the eyes detailed in black on a white ground and the long hair gathered in a knot on the shoulders also painted black, overall traces of burial earth and root tracings
17¼in. (43.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a similar female attendant, but with less angular head, included in the exhibition, Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, September 28-November 25, 1990, Catalogue, pp. 30 and 31, no. 1