EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)

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A PAIR OF SICHUAN RED POTTERY FIGURES OF A BANQUET CHEF AND ATTENDANT
Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220)
The chef wearing a robe and peaked hat shown kneeling behind a low table lavishly arrayed with three fish, vegetables, fowl, and a pig's head; the female attendant similarly robed and kneeling, wearing a headdress adorned with flowers, holding an ear cup in her right hand and a platter with loaves and two fish in her left
15¼ and 14½ in. (38.7 and 36.9 cm.) high (2)

Literature

S. Little, The Herzman Collection, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 16.

Exhibited

Arts of the Han Dynasty, J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 25 March-11 April, 1998, no. 7.

Lot Essay

Compare with similar figures excavated from Eastern Han tombs in Sichuan province illustrated in "Sichuan sheng bowuguan" (Sichuan Provincial Museum), Wenwu, Beijing, 1992, nos. 74 and 77. See, also, Zhongguo meishu quanji, vol. 2, Fu Tiancho, (ed.), Beijing, 1985, no. 112.

The results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. test nos. C97h55 and C97h61 are consistent with the dating of this lot.

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