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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
1009
A VERY RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED
LADY HOLDING A BIRD
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
12q in. (31.8 cm.) high

$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
Tonying & Company, Inc., New York, 11 May 1963.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000), and thence by descent.
This charming figure is shown in an intimate moment of repose, seated with
one leg pendent and the other bent, with one shoe discarded on the ground
and gaze focused on the bird in her left hand. Her hair is swept up into an
elaborate coiffure and she wears an elegant gown with a high waist, low-cut
neckline, and relief-decorated with florets, a textile motif that was popular
during the Tang dynasty. The hourglass-shaped stool on which she is seated
is patterned on rattan models from South Asia, further emphasizing the
imperial expansion and cosmopolitan nature of the Tang. A figure with both
arms raised and seated in a similar pose is published in Zhongguo gu dai tao
su yi shu (Chinese Ancient Ceramic Sculpture and Art), Beijing, 1957, no. 67.
Another figure seated on a waisted stool and holding a bird was sold in The
Hardy Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from the Sze
Yuan Tang, Christie’s New York, 21 September 1995, lot 77.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.
366t37 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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