A GROUP OF EIGHT PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE ENTERTAINERS
A GROUP OF EIGHT PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE ENTERTAINERS
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A GROUP OF EIGHT PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE ENTERTAINERS

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A GROUP OF EIGHT PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE ENTERTAINERS
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The group comprises six musicians playing various musical instruments and two dancers.
The largest: 8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 27 November 1990, lot 101.

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Lot Essay

Music and dance were highly popular at the Tang court, and the costumes and coiffures of these musicians and dancers reflect the fashion for women during the Tang dynasty. A painted pottery group of ten seated female musicians and a pair of standing figures shown in the midst of sleeve-tossing dance gestures, is illustrated by R. Hayashi in The Silk Road and the Shoso-in, New York/Tokyo, 1975, p. 96, no. 103. See, also, the two painted pottery seated female musicians wearing similar clothing to that of the current figures and with their hair also arranged in double topknots, in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, p. 213 nos. 246 and 248.

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