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TWO CHINESE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF GROOMS
Lot 3 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

TWO CHINESE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF GROOMS

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Closed29 January 2019

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TWO CHINESE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF GROOMS
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Both figures shown standing on plinths with hands raised as if holding reins, and dressed in tunics, and with unglazed moulded face with prominent features and hair pulled back
13 ½ in. (33.5 cm.) and 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) high

Private English Collection, assembled prior to 1996.

Specialist note

A larger, similarly modelled figure of a groom sold at Christie's Paris, 21-22 June 2016, lot 365.
The result of the Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence test nos. C117p8 and C117p10 are consistent with the dating of this lot.