An extremely rare blue-splashed sancai-glazed 'lady and child' group, Tang dynasty | 唐 三彩藍釉抱子仕女立俑
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May 7, 03:37 AM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 160,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
elegantly modelled with the black hair piled and tied into a rounded coiffure framing the full rounded face, the details pencilled in black and the cheeks portrayed applied with rouge, above the neck encircled with a necklace and the hands supporting a baby, further rendered wearing a long flowing green dress and with the amber upper section over long blue-splashed sleeve🐷s, a further blue-splashed scarf thrown over the shoulders and falling down the back, all supported on an oval base, Japanese wood box
39.8 cm
The Mount Trust Collection of Captain Vivian Francis (1891–1968) and Mrs Cornelia S🦹tuyvesant Vanderbilt Bulkeley-Jo🅠hnson (1900–1976), Oxford.
The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1955,𒊎🐭 cat. no. 20.
The Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art, Vic🍌toria and Albert Mus🌸eum, London, 1970, cat. no. 31.
Bi no bi [The beauty of beauty], N♒ihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1976, cat. no. 43.
Laꦇrge polychrome-glazed figures of Tang ladies such as the present example are extremely rare, and the present figure appears to be unique in holding a child which forms part of the original model. The majority of related figures are unglazed and empty-handed, a number of unglazed ladies are holding birds, and several are holding items which have been added later.
One closely related figure, a polychrome glazed lady holding a songbird, formerly in the collections of Dr Alessandro Campilli and Mario Prodan, sold in our London rooms, 10th June 1986, lot 26, as part of an important European collection of Tang pottery, metalwork and sculpture, was included in the exhibition Mostra d'Arte Cinese, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 320 and is illustrated in Mario Prodan, The Arts of the Tang Potter, London, 1960, col. pl. II. The remarkable similarities with the present figure in t🍬he model, the colours and the application of the glazes, which fully cover the plinth, suggest that both figures were made by the same workshop and at the same time.
來源
Mount Trust 收藏（Vivian Francis Bulkeley-♚Johnson 上尉（1891–1968年）及 Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Bulkeley-Johnson（1𝓡900–1976年）收藏，牛津）
展覽
《🧔The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty》, 東方陶瓷協會，倫敦𝕴，1955年，編號20
《The Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art》，🦩維多利亞與艾爾伯特博物館，倫敦，1970年，編號31
《美の美》，日本橋三越本店，東京，1976年，編號43