北魏 灰陶加彩文官立俑兩件

each slender figure standing with hands clasped within the wide and loose sleeves, wearing a long layered robe and official hat, traces of pigment, fixed to wood stand (2)

One figure is broken at the legs and restored. The other figure is broken at the waist and restored, together with a faint crack around the neck. Both figures with some scattered minor chips and nicks and some expected wear and accretions to the surface, consistent with age.
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Two pottery figures of similar style, dated Northern Wei dynasty, one in the Waseda University, Tokyo, and the other in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, are illustrated in Ryocho no bijitsu [Arts of the Six Dynasties], Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, Osaka, 1980, cat. nos 82 and 84.