A Group of Five Straw-Glazed Standing Female Figures

SUI/EARLY TANG DYNASTY

Details

A Group of Five Straw-Glazed Standing Female Figures
Sui/Early Tang Dynasty
Comprising two musicians playing lutes, a dancer with long sleeves and one hand held up before her face, and two attendants, each with delicately modeled features, all under slightly differing straw glazes
7.1/8 to 86in. (18.1 to 22cm.) high (5)

Exhibited

Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 6 October 1996 - 16 March 1997, nos. 70C, E, F H, J.
Hempstead, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Appeasing the Spirits, 14 February - 7 May 1993, p. 17, no. 7 (musician and attendant).
Binghamton, College Art Gallery, State University of New York, Appeasing the Spirits, 9 October - 14 November 1993, p. 17, no. 7 (musician and attendant).

Lot Essay

Compare a very similar standing figure of a lady holding a lute illustrated in Collection of World's Ceramics, Tokyo, vol. 9, pl. 106 (right). See, also, the group of five painted and straw-glazed figures of female entertainers sold in these rooms, 2 June 1994, lot 252.
The results of Oxford thermoluminescence test nos. 566h5 and 666u12 are consistent with the dating of this lot.

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