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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN OFFICIAL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The official is shown standing upright on a splash-glazed base with the hands clasped in front, wearing an amber-glazed robe beneath a splash-glazed breastplate over cream-glazed trousers and amber shoes with upturned toes. The unglazed head has traces of pigments. The face is depicted with a stern expression and is surmounted by a tall official's hat detailed with a bird on top.
35 ¾ in. (90.7 cm.) high
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Compare related figures of this type and size illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Early Wares: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics I, Taiwan, 1991, pp. 246-47. Another, shown as one of a pair, in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Silk Roads-China Ships, 1983, p. 47.

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