TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

细节

A Pair of Sancai-Glazed Pottery Figures of Officials
Tang dynasty (618-907)
Each shown standing atop a rockwork base with his hands clasped in front of his chest within the narrow sleeves of an undergarment, his full-sleeved amber-glazed tunic worn over a long straw-glazed skirt, with a splashed glaze on the breast plate and sleeve borders, the unglazed faces differently modeled below official's hats of different style, one molded with three mountain peaks flanked by wings, the other molded with a descending bird
28¾ and 29¼in. (73 and 74cm.) high (2)

来源

Joanne Toor Cummings Collection.

拍品专文

The hat decorated with mountain peaks is that of a military official, considered lower in rank than the civil official represented by the hat decorated with a bird. For a similar pair of figures, also representing the two ranks of officials, but the hat of the civil official different in style, see A Thousand Years of Chinese Tomb Sculpture, Epcot Center, Orlando, Florida, no. 27, 1983.