Lot Essay
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666g46 is consistent with the dating of this lot
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AN UNUSUAL LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF AN ENTERTAINER
?HAN/THREE KINGDOMS/SIX DYNASTIES
The broad-shouldered stocky dwarf modelled standing with one knee slightly bent in a half turn, his arms raised before him with clenched fists each hollowed to hold an object, wearing a short-sleeved orange-striped tunic stretched tightly across his protruding belly and bottocks, with thick muscular neck supporting a head with sharply defined features, knife-cut with deep-set bulging eyes and ridged brow, high cheekbones and pointed upturned nose with flared nostrils above a thin-lipped snear, his face, hands and neck picked out in pale pinkish-orange pigment, gray, orange and white slip remaining, the body pierced with a circular aperture at the right hip and below the left shoulder--19 in. (48.2cm.) high
?HAN/THREE KINGDOMS/SIX DYNASTIES
The broad-shouldered stocky dwarf modelled standing with one knee slightly bent in a half turn, his arms raised before him with clenched fists each hollowed to hold an object, wearing a short-sleeved orange-striped tunic stretched tightly across his protruding belly and bottocks, with thick muscular neck supporting a head with sharply defined features, knife-cut with deep-set bulging eyes and ridged brow, high cheekbones and pointed upturned nose with flared nostrils above a thin-lipped snear, his face, hands and neck picked out in pale pinkish-orange pigment, gray, orange and white slip remaining, the body pierced with a circular aperture at the right hip and below the left shoulder--19 in. (48.2cm.) high