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A PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A COURT
LADY
Tang Dynasty
Gracefully modelled standing with both hands held in
front of the body, wearing loose colourful robes finely
detailed with floral patterns and reaching the floor
revealing the tips of their pointed shoes, the round
face with delicate features highlighted by ruby-red
and rosy-pink pigments beneath the hair dressed in a
high half-moon-shaped topknot.
35cm (13 6/8in) high
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 71,000

唐 陶胎彩繪仕女俑

Provenance:
Castle of Antiquities Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, 16 June
2000
Gisèle Croës Arts D’Extreme Orient, Brussels, 2005
Jean-Yves Ollivier Collection

來源：
香港古董商古城藝術品有限公司，2000年6月16日
布魯塞爾古董商吉賽爾藝廊，2005年
歐宗易先生珍藏

Facial ornamentation played an important part in
the life of the highest-ranking female members of
Tang society. Decorative shapes were often applied
to the forehead, as displayed on the present figure,
whether by means of paint, gold leaf or glued paper.
The fashion for forehead decoration appears to
have originated during the Six Dynasties period,
when one day, a plum flower fell on and stained
the forehead of Princess Shou Yang, daughter of
Emperor Wudi of the Liu Song dynasty (r.420-422).
See E.Schafer, The Early History of Lead Pigments
and Cosmetics in China, in Toung Pao, 1956,
vol.44, pp.413-438.

Compare with similarly red-painted pottery figures
of court ladies, Tang dynasty, illustrated by J.Baker,
Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the
Schloss Collection, Santa Ana, 1996, p.34, fig.17.

A similar painted pottery figure of a court lady,
Tang dynasty, was sold at Christie’s New York,
17 September 2008, lot 408.
The result of ASA Authentication et Datation
d’Objects d’Art et d’Archaeologie par Methodes
Scientifiques, Paris, thermoluminescence test
no.203 048, dated 10 March 2000, is consistent
with the dating of this lot.

面敷赭色，蛾眉間點花紅，鳳眉，櫻唇，頭頂高
髻，點以圓斑以作髮飾，身著赭衫，外罩青翠外
褂，肩披紅巾，其上繪紅綠花色，腳著翹頭履。
參考一件唐代紅彩侍女俑，見J. Baker著，
《Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture
from the Schloss Collection（找尋不朽：史羅斯收
藏中國墓葬造像）》，聖安娜，圖17，頁34。另可
參考佳士得紐約2008年9月17日售出一件類似侍女
俑，拍品408。
巴黎ASA Authentication et Datation d’Objects
d’Art et d’Archaeologie par Methodes
Scientifiques熱釋光檢測結果（2000年3月10日，
編號203 048）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。

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