A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
The elegant slender figure standing with hands clasped within the thick folds of the long sleeves of her winter robes which flare out below the hips and then form a long spreading train in back, her face modelled with delicate features framed by the edges of the hood that covers her head, with white and reddish-orange pigment
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the figure with a similar, elegantly flaring skirt, excavated from a Han dynasty tomb in Chang'an, Shaanxi province, and illustrated in Tomb Treasures from China: The Buried Art of Ancient Xi'an, San Francisco and Fort Worth, 1994, p. 47, no. 26, and another, by Yuzo Sugimura, Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes and Jades in Japanese Collections, Tokyo, 1966, pl. no. 4.

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