A painted grey pottery figure of a female attendant Han dynasty,…
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A painted grey pottery figure of a female attendant Han dynasty, the slender figure modelled standing wearing a long white robe folded across the chest, the clasped hands held in front hidden within the wide sleeves, the long hair drawn back and knotted below the shoulders, the face with delicate features detailed in black and red on a white ground, traces of white slip and black and red pigments, perspex stand, 50 cm high. Provenance: Dragon Culture, Hong Kong. Private Collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above circa 2000. Compare with a similar figure from the Cox Family Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2012, lot 21, and a grey pottery figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics The World's Great Collections, Vol 12, monochrome plate no 10.

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  • Monochrome / Monochromatic - A painting or drawing finished in a single colour, or in different shades of a single color.
  • Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.

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