A PAIR OF STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE MUSICIANS

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A PAIR OF STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE MUSICIANS
SUI/EARLY TANG DYNASTY

Each shown seated on a square base with canted corners, one playing a flute, the other holding small cymbals, wearing short-sleeved, cropped jackets over a long-sleeved undergarment and a long skirt falling in folds around their legs, their hair dressed in a crescent-shaped flange, covered in a finely crackled glaze of yellow tone bearing traces of red, black and orange pigment (some restoration)
7¼in. (18.4cm.) high, box (2)

Lot Essay

Five similarly modeled musicians are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1975, no. 22

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766h84 is consistent with the dating of this lot