PAUL RUITENBEEK Chinese Art

PAINTED POTTERY PAIR OF SOLDIERS

 

NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (386-535)

 

34.9 cm high (without stand)

 

Pair of pottery soldiers wearing lamellar breastplates and helmets, standing in slightly bent stance, one of their arms half-raised, heads lightly bowed. The faces of the soldiers are finely moulded with an expressive frown. The grey pottery is unglazed and partly covered in red pigment. 

 

Provenance:

 

Formerly in the collection of D. David-Weill (1871-1952)

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Eskenazi, London, 1980

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Formerly in the collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson

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Sotheby's London, 1972

 

Published:

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Sotheby's London, David-Weill, 29 February 1972, lot 4

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Eskenazi, Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson, 12 - 20 December 1980, no. 8