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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE HARTMAN
COLLECTION
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A PAIR OF LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF See a similar pair from the Yokogawa Collection in the Tokyo National
OFFICIALS Palace Museum illustrated in Chinese Ceramics, vol. I, Tokyo, 1988,
Tang Dynasty nos. 189-190.
Each modeled standing on a pierced rock base, with the hands held
together at the waist, the heads unglazed and with red and black Figures with bird headdress appear to be particularly rare, while of the
pigment highlights, one with a calm expression below a butterfly hat,
the other with knotted brow below a hat molded with a diving bird, companion figure comparable examples are illustrated by John Ayers,
each with voluminous-sleeved robes, one green, the other amber, and Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 44 and
both edged in a wax-resist mottled sancai glaze, one with up-turned in the handbook of the Jogn D. Rockefeller III Collection, New York, p.
pointed shoes, the other with regular slipper-form shoes. (2) 54.
41 1/2in (105.5cm) and 41 3/4in (106cm) high
A very similar sancai-glazed pottery figure of an official is illustrated by
$10,000 - 15,000 Bower and Mowry, From Court to Caravan: Chinese Tomb Sculptures
from the Collection of Anthony W. Solomon, New York, 2002, p. 107,
唐 大件三彩官人俑一對 no. 30.

Provenance:
Sotheby's London, 27 March 1962, lot 41
Sotheby's London, 7 October 1968, lot 108
Richard B. Gump Collection
Sotheby's New York, 30 May 1990, lot 79

來源：
倫敦蘇富比拍賣行，1962 年 3 月 27 日，拍品編號 41
倫敦蘇富比拍賣行，1968 年 10 月 7 日，拍品編號 108
Richard B. Gump 舊藏
紐約蘇富比拍賣行，1990 年 5 月 30 日，拍品編號 79

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