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A PAIR OF PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF FEMALE DANCERS Music and dance were highly popular at the Tang court, and the slender
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) bodies and costume of these two dancers refect the fashion for women
during the early part of the Tang dynasty. They are very similar, including
Each graceful dancer wears a bead necklace, a long scarf tied the coifure, to two painted pottery dancers included in the Exhibition of
diagonally around her body over a short jacket and long skirt, as Chinese Arts, C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1 November 1941 - 30 April 1942, no.
well as an under-blouse with long, narrow sleeves that she fings 431. See, also, the drawing of such a fgure illustrated by E. Schloss, Ancient
to the right and above her left shoulder to enhance the graceful, Ceramic Sculpture from Han Through T’ang, 2 vols., Stamford, Connecticut,
undulating movement of the dance. Her face is modeled and detailed vol. I, p. 140, no. 13. 1977.
with delicate features, and her hair is dressed in an elaborate double-
winged coiffure. There are traces of red and black pigment. The results of Oxford thermoluminescence test nos. 566b45 and 566b46 are
consistent with the dating of this lot.
9æ in. (24.8 cm.) high (2)
唐 彩繪陶女舞俑一對
$15,000-18,000
PROVENANCE
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 18 April 1989.
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