J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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A PAIR OF LARGE PAINTED POTTERY COURT LADIES

Tang Dynasty, 8th Century

shown standing gracefully, with an air of self-assurance, the full-figured young women as similar as sisters, with neatly coiffed flamboyant black hair framing their plump, rounded faces and gathered into small chignons at the front, their faces covered with flesh-pink pigment, with carefully drawn narrow eyes under thick eyebrows, and their dainty pursed lips painted bright red, wearing high-waisted dresses with long skirts falling to the circular bases, decorated with scattered flowers outlined in white and painted in red and blue-green, over loose purplish-brown under-robes with long sleeves covering their hands, one figure with bright green and amber diamond motifs on her sleeves shown with her hands together at her waist and supporting a small hexafoil dish with two fruits, the other figure with fan-shaped flowers on her under-robe, shown idly holding one hand up in front of her waist and covered by the bunched end of the sleeve, the other hand down by her side also concealed under the pleated fabric, both with the long curled toes of their shoes emerging at the front, the pigments unusually well preserved throughout.

Height 22 inches (56 cm)

唐  加彩女陶俑  高 56 厘米