A GROUP OF SIX PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF ATTENDANTS

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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A GROUP OF SIX PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF ATTENDANTS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Each slim figure wearing fitted layered robes and painted in black pigment with characters possibly indicating his position, the long hair tied back and the face modelled with delicate features, with traces of red, white and blue pigment
10 1/8 to 10 3/8 in. (25.6 to 26.3 cm.) high (6)

拍品专文

Compare a very similar group of twenty-one male and female painted pottery figures, some of which bear the same brushed characters as the present lot, illustrated by Gisèle Croës, Ritual Objects and Chinese Buddhist Art, March 2004, pp. 84-91, no. 21.