A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED COURT LADY

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH

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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED COURT LADY
TANG DYNASTY

The elegant figure shown seated erectly on a splash-glazed, waisted rockwork stool, holding a stylized blossoming stem in her right hand and in her left the end of a long, trailing, cream-glazed scarf that originates tucked into the belt of her low-necked dress, drapes over her right shoulder and is tucked under the belt on the left side in back, her cap-sleeved bodice splashed in amber, cream and green glaze, her long-sleeved under garment glazed chestnut and her long skirt glazed green, her gently rounded, unglazed face showing traces of pigment retaining a cut-out foliate design on the forehead below the hairline, her hair painted black and drawn up into a 'butterfly' topknot, glaze with some iridescence and with some earth encrustation, minor repairs--13 3/4in. (35cm.) high

拍品专文

This figure belongs to a group of finely modeled, elegant, seated court ladies which includes the figure from the collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, included in the exhibition, Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, Maryland Art Gallery, March 23-April 30, 1972, Catalogue no. 85, fig. 32 and later sold at Sotheby's New York, November 18, 1982, lot 57 and again June 1, 1988, lot 88. The hair style of the present figure is less elaborate than that of the Luboshez figure, and she does not wear a bead necklace, but otherwise she is similar in pose, style of dress and holds a similar long-stemmed flower. Compare, also, the elegant seated female figures illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, nos. 191 and 193. Both hold blossoming stems; the former wears a gown with different bodice and does not wear a long scarf, but her hair is dressed in a manner similar to that of the present figure, while the latter figure (no. 193) does wear a similarly draped, long scarf, but has a phoenix headdress surmounting her coiffure

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766a84 is consistent with the dating of this lot