Similar dancing figures have been found in Han cliff tombs in Sichuan, such as those at Hejiashan, Jinyang, at Shanguci, Yibin, and at Mumashan, illustrated in Wenwu 1991, no. 3, pl. II:1; Wenwu ziliao conqkan, no. 9 (1985), pl. VII:3; and Akiyama Terukazu et al, Arts of China: Recent Discoveries, 1968, no. 283

Compare also the larger figure of a dancer sold in these rooms November 27, 1991, lot 253

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666a38 is consistent with the dating of this lot