A Rare Miniature Dingyao Figure of a Boy

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

细节

A Rare Miniature Dingyao Figure of a Boy
Northern Song/Jin dynasty, 11th-12th century
Shown seated holding a drum on his left knee and a drum stick in his right hand, wearing loose trousers and a jacket worn falling off his left shoulder, his face modeled with fine features and full cheeks, and his hair worn in tufts trailing behind each ear, covered with a transparent glaze pooling to an olive tone in the recesses
2 3/4in. (7cm.) high

来源

C.T. Loo, New York, June 1950.

拍品专文

A number of small human figures of Northern Song and Jin date have been excavated from sites in the Dingxian area of Hebei province, and are illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 9, Dingyao, Shanghai, 1981, nos. 61-66 and 94-5, 97. One of the Northern Song figures, like the Falk figure, holds a musical instrument, in the case of the excavated figure a qin, another holds a child. One of the Jin figures holds a double gourd, while another rides on a phoenix. A figure of this type in the Östasiatiska Museet, Stockholm, Kempe Collection, is published by M. Tregear in Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 69, no. 72, where the author suggests that it is possibly a votive figure.