TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A PAINTED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A STANDING COURT LADY
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Shown standing on a rectangular base, the court lady wears long robes that fall in vertical folds to the upturned tips of her shoes, and a long shawl draped over her shoulders and her right hand which she clasps to her breast as she look towards the extended finger of her left hand where a bird may have been perched. Her hair is dressed in a hood-like coif pulled up into a broad loop in front. There is extensive white pigment remaining, and the full face has some bright reddish-pink pigment.
17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) high, fitted wood box

Provenance

H. Packard, Tokyo.
N.V. Hammer, New York.
Eskenazi, London, 1974, A375.
By descent from the Reach Family Collection.

Exhibited

Eskenazi, London, Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1974, no. 21.
Eskenazi, London, Chinese Art from the Reach Family Collection, 1989, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

Compare to an almost identical pottery figure of a court lady, also dating to the Tang dynasty, and formerly in the Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Schloss Collection, New York, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels, Gilt Bronzes and Early Ceramics, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1973, p. 74. Like the present figure, the Eskenazi example stands in a similar pose with her hand held aloft and her fingers extended where a bird might have once perched.

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