Chinese Wei Terracotta Soldier Figure

Hollow-formed, standing erect in armoured apparel with helmet, right arm bent across the waist and fist clenched to hold a bow or spear. 1.36 kg, 33 cm



From a West Country, UK, collection, 1990s.

Comprising a broad square base with pelleted rim and foliage in low relief supporting a cuboid block; to three faces, a shallow recess with cadavers and squatting figure with three heads, to fourth face an integral gourd with socketted rim above and central void; to the forward edge of the base a cadaver flanked by two crouching figures with hands raised to their mouths, modelled in the round; to the upper face, four partial cadavers radiating from the centre in low relief, with a sitting figure to each corner with hands raised to the face, wearing a zoomorphic headdress; some traces of gilding. 5.14 kg, 18.5 cm wide



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

With raised mouth, broad shoulder and tapering sidewall, stepped base; radiating petals to shoulder, trees to sidewall reserved against a brown field; old dealer's label to underside. 105 grams, 64 mm



From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.