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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN

(the current figure in the Goldman residence)

Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
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A VERY RARE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A While depictions of boys were a popular theme in the Song dynasty,
SEATED BOY such large pottery figures as the present boy are extremely rare. The
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279) theme expresses the wish for many male children, and boys appear as
decoration in every media, including qingbai and Yaozhou wares and
11.¾ in. (30 cm.) high
as the figural base of pillows. Song-dynasty miniature pottery figures
$60,000-80,000 can also be found, such as a group of five Northern Song miniature red
pottery boys in the Zhengjiang City Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Germany, 1950s (by repute). wenwu jinghua daquan: taocijuan (The Compendium of Chinese
Raimann & Raimann, Weisbaden, Germany, 2010. Archaeological Treasures: Ceramics Volume), Hong Kong, 1993, p. 171,
Property from a Private New England Collection; Sotheby's New York, 15 no. 584. A rare miniature Ding figure of a boy from the Falk Collection
March 2017, lot 601. was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001.
EXHIBITED: The current life-size figure of a boy is extremely rare. A related pottery
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Children to Immortals: Figural figure of a boy, seated with the hands raised and of comparable size
Representations in Chinese Art, 9 August 2018 - 23 February 2020. (31.7 cm.) to the present figure was offered at Sotheby’s New York, 21
September 2005, lot 60. This related figure also wears with bracelets
LITERATURE:
Pengliang Lu, "Beyond a wish for Progeny: Boys in Chinese Art", Arts of Asia, and an amulet at the neck, but is molded and painted with clothing.
March-April 2019, pp. 78-87, fig. 12.
When the present figure was included in the exhibition Children to
高曼珍藏 Immortals: Figural Representations in Chinese Art at The Metropolitan
宋 彩❡陶⒳子ঙ像 Museum of Art, New York, it was noted that “Song historical tests
Ϝ源 and archaeological discoveries indicate that this type of pottery doll
德४私́珍藏，1950年代（ҷ） (nihai’er), elaborately dressed with real clothes and jewelry, was made
Raimann Raimann，威斯巴Ⅻ，德४，2010年 for the Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month) and
美४新英格蘭私́珍藏；紐☼蘇富比，2017年3月15日，拍品編號601 kept in people’s homes to express the wish for many male children.”
展覽 (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/775525)
紐☼，૯都會藝術博ḵ館，ǙChildren to Immortals: Figural Representations in
Chinese Artǚ，2018年8月9日 2020年2月23日 The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no.C205m5 is consistent
֨ḛ with the dating of this lot.
陸鵬̼，ǙBeyond a wish for Progeny: Boys in Chinese Artǚ，ǗArts of Asiaǘ
，2019年3 4月ֵ，頁78 87，圖ḛ12
此拍品經Ḫ津熱釋Բ測年法測ぜ（測ぜ編號$ N ），ㄗ實與本圖錄̃斷
代ⓡ合ǐ