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A PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A COURT LADY
Tang DynastyThe smiling figure with vivid red lips on her white-painted face and black paint highlighting her towering coiffure, her a high-waisted robe with a low neckline of pale green hue in contrast to the iron red pigment on her short jacket, waistband and long scarf covering both hands, her feet shod in slippers with upturned toes that peek out from the hem of her robe. 12in (30.5cm) high
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Provenance Han Fong Galerie, Paris, 27 June 2002 The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C102n90, dated 21 June 2002, is consistent with the dating of this lot.The double-wing coiffure, as well as the clothing worn by this court lady, also appear on a beauty constructed of cloth, clay and wood found in 1973 in a Tang period burial in Turpan, Xinjiang province: see Geng Baochang, Zhong guo wen wu jing hua da quan: Tao ci juan (Taibei, Taiwan shang wu yin shu guan gong si, 1993), no. 490, p. 140. For a similarly dressed female attendant excavated in 1971 from the tomb of Zheng Rentai (dated to 664), see James C.Y. Watt and Prudence Oliver Harper (ed.), China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004), no. 185, pp. 293-4.