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RARE STATUETTE DE SOLDAT EN TERRE
CUITE À GLAÇURE OLIVE
Dynastie Sui (589-618 ap. J.-C)
A RARE OLIVE-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE
OF A SOLDIER
Sui Dynasty (589-618 AD)
The guardian figure standing straight with
arms along each side, the unglazed bearded
face looking ahead, with rounded eyes and
well-defined cheeks above the detailed mouth
and finely incised long pleated beard, wearing
an olive-glazed capped helmet and flowing
robes open at the centre, with the unglazed
feet protruding below the undergarments, all
raised on an oval platform.
64.8cm (25 1/2in) high.
€3,000 - 5,000

Provenance:
Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021)
Compare with a related figure of a bearded
foreigner in the Tenri Sankokan Museum,
Japan, illustrated by W.Watson, Tang and Liao
Ceramics, New York, 1984, p.211, no.231.
See also a large olive-glazed red pottery figure
of a soldier, Sui dynasty, which was sold at
Christie’s New York, 20 March 2015, lot 790.
隋 青釉陶武士俑

來源：
巴黎Jean-Pierre Rousset（1936-2021）舊藏

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