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A PAIR OF PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF SEATED FEMALE
MUSICIANS
SUI-EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 7TH CENTURY

Each well-modeled seated musician wears a long shawl draped
over the shoulders of her low-bodiced dress that falls in graceful
folds around her knees. One holds cymbals and the hands of the
other are positioned as if to hold a fute. The facial features are
delicately modeled in a serene expression and the hair is dressed in a
cloth-wrapped topknot. There are traces of red and black pigment,
including red stripes on one dress.

6 in. (15.2 cm.) high (2)

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

George de Menasce, 1971.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1980, no. 9043.
Sotheby’s New York, 3 June 1987, lot 102.

EXHIBITED

Venice, Mostra D’Arte Cinese, 1954, no. 313.
London, Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, 1955,
no. 40.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, Chinese Works of Art from the collection of J. M. A.
Dawson, 1980, no. 90.

LITERATURE

Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, London, 1955,
pl. 33, no. 40.

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