NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (AD 386-534)

This figure is of unusually large size for this type. Compare the smaller figure of a soldier, his face modeled in a different expression, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 63, no. 166 and two related figures, also of smaller size, illustrated by Annette Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone: Chinese Art in the C. C. Wang Family Collection, Seattle and London, 1988, pl. 37.

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766n25 is consistent with the dating of this lot.