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A VERY RARE LARGE PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

The attendant is shown standing with head inclined slightly forward and partially hollowed
hands held one above the other protruding from the full sleeves of her heavy, layered robes
that are belted low on the waist and worn over loose trousers that fall to the tops of her
shoes. The face is sensitively modeled, and the hair is parted in the middle and pulled back
in a double loop at the nape of the neck. There are extensive traces of red, blue and white
pigment.

22Ω in. (57.2 cm.) high, lucite stand

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE

Important Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, Selected Masterpieces from the Schloss Collection;
Sotheby’s New York, 3 December 1984, lot 45.

EXHIBITED

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Arts of Ancient China, 1973.
China Institute in America, New York, Art of the Han, 14 March - 27 May 1979, no. 18.
Epcot Center, Florida, A Thousand Years of Chinese Tomb Sculpture, 1982.

LITERATURE

Wen Fong and Maxwell Hearn, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, No. 2, 1973/1974, The
Arts of Ancient China, fg. 47.
Ezekial Schloss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture from Han through T’ang, 2 vols., Stamford,
Connecticut, 1977, vol. II, col. pl. II and pl. 16.
Ezekial Schloss, Art of the Han, China Institute in America, New York, 1979, p. 42, no. 18.
Barbara Smith and Wango Weng, China: A History in Art, New York, 1979, p. 61.
Kotker, Antiques World, n.d., p. 45.
A Thousand Years of Chinese Tomb Sculpture, Epcot Center, Florida, 1982, cover and col. pl. 5.

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