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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
1150
A RARE LARGE GREY POTTERY SOLDIER
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (AD 386-534)
Solidly and heavily constructed, the tall fgure
shown standing with his hands clasped at his
chest, his arms concealed by his long winter cape
with rolled fur collar, worn over a red-painted
under-robe, his broad face modeled with alert
expression, pointed nose, furrowed brow and
partially open mouth above a short, pointed beard
scored with fne lines to represent hair, all framed
by a winter cap divided into four lobes trailing a
long fap over the ears and shoulders, extensive
traces of pale pink, blue and red pigment.
22 in. (55.8 cm.) high, stand
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE
Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.
This fgure is of unusually large size for this type.
Compare the smaller fgure of a soldier, his face
modeled in a diferent expression, illustrated
in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976,
p. 63, no. 166 and two related fgures, also of
smaller size, illustrated by Annette Juliano,
Bronze, Clay and Stone: Chinese Art in the
C. C. Wang Family Collection, Seattle and London,
1988, pl. 37.
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence
test no. 766n25 is consistent with the dating
of this lot.
北魏 彩繪陶武士俑

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