A RARE GROUP OF THREE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURES OF ENTERTAINERS

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A RARE GROUP OF THREE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURES OF ENTERTAINERS
WARRING STATES

Each figure modeled with high cheekbones, long nose and small open mouth picked out in red pigment, below coal-black hair gathered in a simple topknot, one seated and dressed in a close-fitting tunic with wide sleeves, shown in a frontal position with his wrists balanced on his knife-cut bent legs, the second standing with hands clasped together and staring straight ahead, dressed in a long robe, the hem forming the edge of the base, the third modeled as if in motion, wearing a short jacket over knife-cut trousers, each dressed in a creamy white slip with details picked out in grayish, pale pink and red pigments, some repairs--the tallest 9 1/2 in. (24.2cm.) high (3)

拍品專文

These figures are similar in their facial features and costume to a group of bronze human-form supports dated to the early Warring States period excavated in 1972 at Fenshuiling, Changzhi, Shanxi province, now in the Shanxi Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo meishu quanji--Gongyi meishubian, vol. 5 (Bronze), p. 23, pl. 62

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666e29 is consistent with the dating of this lot