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A RARE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE
ATTENDANT

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

The fgure is shown standing in a respectful pose with
head lowered and holding a small jar covered in a blue
cloth. She wears a well-modeled three-quarter-length
tunic belted below the waist. Her face is modeled with
delicate features set in a slight smile fanked by small
dimples, and her hair is parted in the center and drawn
back into a bun tied with a ribbon that falls onto the
shoulders. There are traces of extensive orange-red,
black, blue and turquoise pigments.
10√ in. (27.6 cm.) high, lucite stand
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s New York, 4 December 1985, lot 133.

EXHIBITED

Belgium, Ming-ch’i, May 1981, no. 12.

A similarly attired straw-glazed fgure, without the cloth-
draped jar, in the Osaka Municipal Museum, is illustrated in
Zui to No Bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1976, p.
22, no. 1-184 (left).
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 366n21 is
consistent with the dating of this lot.
唐 彩繪陶女侍俑

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