A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A DANCER

HAN DYNASTY

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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A DANCER
Han Dynasty
The slender, elegant changxiu (long sleeved) dancer with her back slightly arched and her knees slightly bent as she swings her right arm up and the left arm back, the long sleeves of her tight-fitting robes flattened out as they extend behind her in the movement of the dance, her face well modeled and painted with delicate features and her long hair detailed with scored lines tied in a knot at the nape of her neck, with traces of red, beige and black pigment
20in. (52.7cm.) high

拍品專文

Similar models of dancers together with figures playing the qin and figures standing at attention were excavated in Baijiakou, near Xi'an, Shaanxi province. See, Kaogu tongxun, 1955:2, pl. 3.1. Compare a dancing figure from this group, currently in the Historical Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Mysteries of Ancient China, London, 1996, p. 206, no. 108, where the author states that "The long sleeve dance (changxiu), which this dancer seems to be performing with her hands hidden in her excessively long sleeves, was one of the many dances that guests were treated to at banquets and court entertainments."

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97h28 is consistent with the dating of this lot