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A painted pottery group of two court ladies, Northern Wei dynasty | 北魏 陶加彩牽手女俑

Auction Closed

September 9, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

modelled as two court ladies standing side by side, the hands closer to each other are holding one another, while their outer hands are placed on their hips, the hair pulled up and tied into two knobs, each dressed identically in a red-painted short robe with wide sleeves, revealing the long wide trousers, which were painted in white together with the skin and the details of the robe, Japanese wood box, fitted wood stand

h. 15.6 cm

See a closely related example dated to the Northern dynasties published in Wang Ziyun, Zhongguo diaosu yishushi / History of the Art of Chinese sculpture, vol. 2, Beijing, 1988, pl. 186. Another related pottery figure in a similar size, dated to the Northern Wei dynasty, is in the Luoyang Museum, however, see the website of the museum.


參見王子雲《中國雕塑藝術史》卷2,北京,1988年,圖版186,載一件年代相近北朝時期作品。另有一例相近的北魏陶俑洛陽博物館,相關資訊可參考該館官方網站。