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824 A BLUE, AMBER AND CREAM- 唐ǭӲ彩藍釉հ女خ
GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A
Ϝ源
COURT LADY 藍理捷
紐約
編號3&
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
展覽
The lady is shown standing with a small cloth bundle held at her 紐約
藍理捷
「"SUT PG "ODJFOU $IJOB」
年 月 月
chest and wearing chestnut-amber robes draped with a long blue 日
shawl. The plump face is modeled with delicate features and her
hair is drawn up into a soft loop that falls onto her forehead. ֨ḛ
藍理捷
《"SUT PG "ODJFOU $IJOB》
紐約
年
編號
12æ in. (32.4 cm.) high, cloth box
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1990, no. RE 1064.
EXHIBITED:
New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Arts of Ancient China, 31 May-
23 June 1990.

LITERATURE:
J. J. Lally & Co., Arts of Ancient China, New York, 1990, no. 20.

The presence of cobalt-blue glaze on this figure would have made
it expensive to produce, and comparable examples are rare. A
related example, with amber dress and the hands held under blue
sleeves, was sold at Christie's Los Angeles, Treasures of the Tang,
4 December, 1998, lot 7, and subsequently at Christie's New York,
26 March 2003, lot 193.
A well-known figure of this type, also with blue-glazed cloak and
tiered ribbon, but with her hand lowered to the waist, is illustrated
in several publications, including Seiichi Mizuno, Tousansai
(Tang sancai), Japan, 1977, vol. 35, fig. 110; in Masterworks of
Eastern Ceramics, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan,
1994, Inaugural Exhibition Catalogue, p. 107, no. 20; and by Yuzo
Sugimara and W. Watson, Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes and Jades in
Japanese Collections, Japan, 1966, no. 40.

See, also, the similar figure of a court lady with similar hair
arrangement and hands folded in front and concealed by her
sleeves, with blue glaze, illustrated in Kaogu, 1983, No. 5, pl. 8,
no. 5 (M6:28), excavated in 1972 in Luoyang, Henan Province.

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