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A LARGE POTTERY FIGURE OF A FIVE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE
DRUMMER ATTENDANTS ‘DRAGON’ SPEAR ORNAMENT, DUN
Eastern Han Dynasty Western Han Dynasty Warring States Period
Modelled kneeling in loose robes, his left The four attendants shown standing with The hollow ferrule of tapering oval section
hand resting on a drum, his right hand raised head inclined slightly forward and hands held relief cast with a dragon head forming the
ready to strike, the face gazing forward with one above the other protruding from the full closed end, with a pair of curling horns above
painted eyes and hair beneath a simulated- sleeves of their heavy folding robes belted stylised eyes, the exterior inlaid throughout
textile hat. low on the waist, traces of coloured pigments in darkened silver sheet with geometrical
34cm (13 1/3in) high. remaining; together with a large pottery designs.
model of a kneeling lady, the slender figure 9cm (3 1/2in) long.
£800 - 1,200 clad in layered tight-fitting robes flaring out
CNY7,200 - 11,000 around her feet. £800 - 1,200
The largest, 60cm (23 5/8in) high. (5). CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 £1,000 - 1,500 Please note this Lot is to be sold at
CNY9,000 - 14,000 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
東漢 陶擊鼓人俑
Please note this Lot is to be sold at 戰國 銅錯銀龍形鐏
See a similar painted pottery figure of a No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
seated musician, from Sichuan Province, Provenance: Dr Arthur M. Sackler (1913-
Eastern Han dynasty, illustrated by R.Krahl, 西漢 陶侍俑 一組五件 1987), New York (inventory no.v3612)
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
Collection, vol.1, London, 1994, p.78, The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. 來源：紐約亞瑟·M.賽克勒博士（1913-
no.114. See also Feng Hejun, Collections of thermoluminescence test no.C207m90 1987）舊藏，器身內部收藏編號v3612
the Palace Museum: Pottery Figures, Beijing, dated 17 December 2007, is consistent
2007, no.8. with the dating of this lot. (pottery attendant See a similar ferrule, Eastern Zhou dynasty,
on the far left) illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker,
Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, London,
Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測 1990, no.86; and also one example in the
結果（2007年12月17日，編號C207m90） collection of the National Palace Museum,
顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。（最左者） Taipei, illustrated by Yu Kuo-Ching, Rituals
Cast in Brilliance: Chinese Bronzes Through
See similar painted pottery figures of the Ages, Taipei, 2014, p.125. See another
attendants, Han dynasty, illustrated by example in Bronze Ritual Vessels and Musical
R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Instruments: The Complete Collection of
Meiyintang Collection, vol.1, London, 1994, Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing,
pp.70-72, nos.85, 86, 87. A similar kneeling 2007, no.184.
pottery figure of a lady, Han dynasty, is in the
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, illustrated
in Oriental Ceramics, vol.9, Tokyo, New York
and San Francisco, 1981, no.9.
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