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LOT 2054
Large Chinese Han Terracotta Dancer
HAN DYNASTY, 206 B.C.-220 A.D. OR LATER
17 3/4 in. (4.4 kg, 45 cm high).
Hollow-formed figure modelled in the round of a dancer wearing a cross-over jacket with bell sleeves hanging at her sides, hair drawn back and secured in a chignon.
Provenance
From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s.
Literature
See Bower, V., From Court to Caravan: Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M.Solomon in the Harvard Art Museum, Yale, 2002, for discussion.
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