A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL, the streaky green, amber and straw-glazed figure shown standing on a rockwork base, with hands clasped together at the chest, wearing a knee-lenght long-sleeved tunic with upturned collar, belted at the waist over long robes falling in soft folds and revealing his shoes, his head with finely modelled with broad nose and sharply defined lips, below a butterfly-shaped official's cap, earth encrustation (some glaze flakes), Tang Dynasty