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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL, TANG DYNASTY (618-907), the dignified official standing with arms clasped against the chest, with hands hidden in muffs, wearing a long amber tunic with green and cream splashes on the breastplate and borders of the sleeves, with amber and green streaks trailing down over the long cream skirt, the face left unglazed, well modeled with elegant features set in a stern expression, beneath a tall peak cap molded with a phoenix bird 28½ in (72.5 cm) high