A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

细节

A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT
Western Han Dynasty
Well modeled in a kneeling position, wearing close-fitting layered robes (shenyi) flaring out to the sides and forming an arch in back above the soles of her feet, her arms and hands hidden within the deep folds of the full sleeves held before her to partially hide the lower portion of her face and partially open mouth so that only the small nose and expressive eyes are visible below the neatly parted hair pulled back behind the ears and gathered in a loose knot in back, with traces of white slip, and red, orange, pink and black pigment
16.3/8in. (41.6cm.) high

拍品专文

Five very similar figures were included in the Eskenazi exhibition, Ceramic sculpture from Han and Tang China, New York, March 19 - 26, 1997, Catalogue, nos. 3-7, where the style of the close-fitting layered robes is identified as shenyi and the hairstyle as chuishaoji. The figures in the exhibition and the present figure are similar, except for the raised hands, to two kneeling figures excavated in 1966 at Renjiapo, Xi'an and illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Diaosu bian 2; Qin Han Diaosu (The Great Treasury of Chinese Art, Sculpture; Qin and Han), vol. 2, Beijing, 1985, pp. 48 and 49

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminesence test no. C97s12 is consistent with the dating of this lot