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A VERY RARE CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF
A COURT LADY
Chu Kingdom/Warring States Period
Carved from a single piece of wood with long and
narrow body, the head flat with almond-shaped
eyes, marked brows, straight nose and lightly cut
mouth, clothed in a silk gown, stand.
49cm (19 1/4in) high. (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 44,000

楚/戰國 木雕仕女立像

Provenance: Jacques Barrere, Paris, purchased in
21 March 2001
John J. Studzinski CBE, London

來源：法國巴黎古董商，Jacques Barrere，
2001年3月21日
大英帝國司令勳章受勳者John J. Studzinski珍藏

Notable for its great simplicity and delicacy and
for the remarkable preservation of brocaded textile
fragments attached to the body, the present
figure was likely intended for internment in a burial
belonging to a high-ranking member of the Zhou
society and together with a vast array of furnishing,
sustained the occupant in their afterlife.

Compare with a similarly-sized wood figure of a lady,
Eastern Zhou dynasty, excavated in Hubei Province,
illustrated by Wang Chuanfu and Yang Minghong,
‘A Tomb of the State of Chu Wuchang Cemetery in
Jiangling, Hubei’, in Wenwu, 1989, vol.3, pl.3, figs.5
and 6.

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