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Lot 64a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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2020-10-22 10:00:00
2020-10-22 10:00:00
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East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1369 to 1644 CE. An impressive mold-made pottery figure detailed with glazed and hand painted pigments atop a hexagonal base. This figure is dressed in a sancai-green glazed robe with amber yellow undertones and a white collar; a royal attendant for a Ming period tomb. The hollow attendant was made from two pieces: the body and a separate removable head. The white head is painted with black and red pigment for hair, eyes, and lips, and capped with a conical hat with a brim. This watchful figure was created specifically for burial in a tomb and would have mirrored an attendant who accompanied the deceased person in life! Size: 4.5" W x 14" H (11.4 cm x 35.6 cm)
Continuing a tradition begun millennia before, Ming dynasty elites had underground tombs full of pottery figures that were made to care for their every need in the afterlife. These were designed to assist the po, the part of the soul of the deceased that remained underground with the body while the hun, the other part of the soul, ascended. Hundreds of pottery figures like this example were placed in tombs during the Ming period.
Provenance: ex- Estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA acquired before 2000
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#158117Head was intentionally created molded separately. Minor nicks and chips to peripheries. Surface wear with some chips to glaze. Attractive glaze cracquelure and fine details!Condition
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