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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE
COLLECTION

A PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A
LADY
TANG DYNASTY

the slender, elegant gure standing with arms
bent and hands held at the waist with index

ngers pointed up, wearing a close- tting tunic
belted below the deep open collar framing a
beaded necklace, with winged projections at
each shoulder and ru es on the upper arm of
the long sleeves, with up-turned cloud-toe shoes
projecting beneath the aring skirt, the face
delicately painted with nely drawn details, the
hair arranged in two elaborate topknots, with
extensive red, green and black pigment and
traces of gilding
Height 14½ in., 36.5 cm

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s New York, 15th September 1999, lot 71.

Compare a similar gure of this type, with a
di erent hair arrangement, in the T.T. Tsui
Collection, illustrated in Splendour of Ancient
Chinese Art. Selections from the Collections of
T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Worldwide,
Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 17. Further examples in the
Eumorfopoulos Collection are illustrated in R.L.
Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection.
Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian
Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1925, pl. XXVIII,
nos 181-182.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result
of a thermoluminescence test, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, no. 01703.

$ 30,000-50,000

1999 9 15 71

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