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A VERY RARE INSCRIBED BLUE AND AMBER- 唐 藍釉三彩仕女坐俑
GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY 器底書「光家之女子」款。
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The figure is modelled seated demurely holding the trailing sash 來源
of her blue and amber-striped, high-waisted dress tied at the chest. 1998 年 3 月 13 日購於香港
The dress is decorated in relief with vertical rows of florets. Her
face is modelled with delicate features and her hair dressed in a 展覽
knotted loop above each ear. She is seated on an amber-glazed Ben Janssens Oriental Art， 倫敦，2004 年，頁 48-51
waisted seat decorated with two rows of lappets. The underside of
the figure is inscribed to the base in black ink Guang jia zhi nu zi ‘, 此女俑神態端莊華貴，雍容雅度，底部署款，異常珍罕。上施名貴鈷藍
which may be translated as ‘daughter of the Guang family’. 釉，可知原物主應出自貴冑之家。有一件相同的出版例子，坐俑中女子
11 Æ in. (30 cm.) high, box 同樣端坐蓮瓣墩上，裙子以藍黃釉配合華麗裝飾花紋，1976 年展覽於大
阪市立美術館《隋唐の美術》，見圖錄圖版 200 號。根津美術館亦藏一
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 US$130,000-190,000 件相似女俑，藍黃釉裙子與本拍品大致相同，惟髮型略異，見 2009 年
日本出版《根津美術館百華撰》，圖版 67 號（圖一）。
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, 13 March 1998 另外亦可參考一件較大的黃綠釉例子（40.6 公分），風格與本拍品相近，
為 A. Alfred Taubman 舊藏，2016 年 3 月 16 日於紐約蘇富比拍賣，
EXHIBITED :
Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2004, Catalogue, pp. 48-51 拍品 272。
This particularly charming figure is rare in both bearing an inscription 此器經牛津熱釋光測年法檢測（測試編號 C103a47；2003 年 1 月 24 日），
and being applied with the precious cobalt-blue glaze. The inscription 證實與本圖錄之定年符合。
indicates that the figure was intended for a female member of the
Guang Family, and the application of the expensive blue glaze suggests
that the Guang Family was one of wealth and privilege. The current
figure combines an elaborately decorated dress with hair simply
bunched on either side of the head in a style more usually associated
with younger girls. This gives a rather endearing impression of a young
girl in her best clothes. Margaret Medley noted in her introduction to
the Exhibition of Tang Sancai Pottery Selected from the Collection of
Alan and Simone Hartman that a similarly dressed standing figure with
hair in side bunches was that of a ‘young adolescent girl’.
A nearly identical figure, seated with the same hair style and blue
and amber-glazed dress, was exhibited at Sui to Tang Dynasty Art,
Osaka City Museum, 1976, Catalogue no. 200. Another very similar
female seated figure, with slightly different hair style but wearing an
identical dress, is in the Nezu Museum of Art and illustrated in Selected
Masterpieces from the Nezu Museum Collection, Japan, 2009, pl. 67
(fig. 1). Compare also to a larger sancai figure of a lady (40.6 cm.),
glazed mainly in yellow and green, which is depicted seated on a rattan
stool holding a flower in one hand, formerly in the A. Alfred Taubman
Collection and sold at Sotheby’s New York, 16 March 2016, lot 272.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.
C103a47 (24 January 2003) is consistent with the dating of this lot.

fig. 1 Collection of the Nezu Museum
圖一 根津美術館藏品

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