SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

Details

A RARE GROUP OF IRON-BROWN-DECORATED QINGBAI FIGURES OF ENTERTAINERS
Southern Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th century
Comprising four male musicians and four dancers, two of the men wearing hats and two of the women with their hair swept up into a tall topknot, three of the musicians playing flutes and one playing the clappers, all of the men wearing striped robes and the women striped jackets over brown aprons and long skirts, the faces all expressively modelled
6¾ to 7in. (17.1 to 17.8cm.) high (8)

Provenance

The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

For a related figure of an official dated to the Southern Song or Yuan dynasty see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 335, no. 628. The author mentions a figure attributed to the Song dynasty excavated near Jingdezhen which is illustrated in Jiangxi Wenwu, 1990, no. 1, inside back cover and fig. 5, and notes that figures of this type were tomb figures, which were rare in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Compare, also, the group of similar figures unearthed in 1970 in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi province, illustrated in Chinese Jingdezhen Porcelain through the Ages: Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Beijing, 1998, nos. 55-9.

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