A RARE PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE DANCER

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Result:

6.475 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Western Han dynasty
H. 33,7 cm
Well modeled in kneeling position, wearing close-fitting layered robes ‚shenyi‘ flaring out to the sides and forming an arch in back above the soles of her feet, her arms are hidden within the deep folds of the full sleeves held in front of her. Her eyes are closed below the neatly parted hair pulled back behind the ears and gathered in a loose knot in back. Traces of white slip and black pigment.
Gallery Blue Elephant, Dr. Egidius Amkreutz, Maastricht, collected according to Mrs. Amkreutz in Europe in the early 1990’s - German private collection purchased at the Tefaf Maastricht 21.3.2001 (DM 28.000.-, invoice preserved).
Five similar figures were included in the Eskenazi exhibition ‚Ceramic sculptures from Han and Tang China‘, New York, March 19th - 26th, 1997, Catalogue, nos. 3-7, where the style oft he close-fitting layered robes is indentified as shenyi and the hairstyle as chuishaoji. The figures in the exhibition and the present figure are similar tot wo kneeling figures excavated 1966 at Renjiapo, Xian and illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Diaosu bian 2; Qin Han Diaosu (The Great Treasury of Chinese Art, Sculpture; Qin and Han), vol. 2, Beijing, 1985, pp. 48 and 49 - The TL-Analysis C114a92 Oxford Authentication Ltd, 3.4.2014 is consistent with the dating of this lot - Few small restorations, minor wear to white slip

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