A BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF A MAN

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. RALPH F. COLIN

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A BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF A MAN
HAN DYNASTY

The heavily cast, hollow figure seated with his legs folded beneath him, leaning forward on one arm, the other outstretched behind his body, wearing a loosely draped, belted robe, his face well modeled in an animated expression, his forehead creased and hair drawn up into a tight bun atop his head, the green-brown patina with some ferrous encrustation (minor restoration and wear)
4in. (10.2cm.)

Lot Essay

This figure is similar to a group of four illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; diaosu; Qin Han diaosu (A Complete Collection of Chinese Art; Sculpture; Qin and Han Sculpture), vol. 2, Beijing, 1985, pl. 78, no. 75, excavated from an early Western Han tomb in Lingtai, Gansu province. Other bronze figures of this type are illustrated in Kandai no Bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1974, p. 37, figs. 2-169, 2-170 and 2-171; and another group of four in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, is illustrated by Christian Deydier, Les Bronzes Chinois, Switzerland, 1980, pl. 102