TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A FOREIGN GROOM
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The tall figure standing in a contraposto position atop a square plinth, with hands positioned as if holding reins, clad in a knee-length tunic secured with a sash, and high boots glazed in green, the unglazed face crisply molded with mouth open and brow furrowed in a stern expression below long combed hair secured by a head band
24 in. (61 cm.) high

Provenance

C. C. Wang Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 27 November 1990, lot 29.

Literature

A. Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone: Chinese Art in the C. C. Wang Family Collection, Seattle and London, 1988, pl. 55.

Lot Essay

A groom of this type, described as Western Turkic, in the Schloss Collection is illustrated by E. Schloss, Foreigners in Ancient Chinese Art, New York, 1969, pl. 10a. Another with similar dress and pose is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi Han Tang taoci daquan, Taipei, 1987-9, p. 210.

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