A Group of Three Large Sichuan Pottery Figures of Entertainers

LATE EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (25-220 AD)

细节

A Group of Three Large Sichuan Pottery Figures of Entertainers
Late Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Including a dancer, a seated singer and a seated musician playing a lute, all wearing layered robes, the dancer with an apron of ribbon-hung panels, all with an assymetrical winged hairdo and small, delicate facial features, with traces of pigment and earth encrustation
22¾in. (57.8cm.), 21½in. (54.6cm.), 25 5/8in. (65cm.) high (3)

来源

Christie's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 267.

出版

S. Little, The Herzman Collection, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 17.

拍品专文

Another group of three entertainers, also comprising a dancer, singer and lute player, though more simply molded, was exhibited at the Musée Cernushi, Chine Connue & Inconnue: Dix anneés d'acquisitions au Museé Cernuschi, 1982-1992, Paris, 1992. A lute player with similarly flower-adorned hair is in the Shanghai Museum; see Ancient Chinese Sculpture Gallery: The Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 1996, no. 5.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C199q41 is consistent with the dating of this lot.