TWO GRAY POTTERY STANDING FIGURES

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

细节

TWO GRAY POTTERY STANDING FIGURES
Western Han Dynasty
The man standing with his hands placed one atop the other and hollowed as if to hold a standard, wearing heavy layered robes and slab-like shoes, his face modeled with smiling expression, his hair with combed markings drawn up on top of his head; the woman standing in a more obsequious pose with head slightly bowed and arms held away from her body to form a circle within the creased full sleeves of her heavy robes, her face with serious expression and her long hair knotted in back
22 and 20in. (54 and 52.1cm.) high, lucite stands (2)

拍品专文

A number of figures similar to the male attendant have been published. One was included in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, p. 157, no. 587; another is illustrated in Zhongguo Gudai Taosu Yishu, China Ancient Art Press, Beijing, 1957, no. 8; and another is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Chinese Art, New York, 1966, p. 146, no. 91. See, also, a pair of female figures in similar dress and with hands held one aligned above the other, included in the exhibition, The Quest for Eternity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987, Catalogue, p. 107, no. 18

The results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test nos. C97k95 and C97k94 are consistent with the dating of this lot