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Lot 145
TWO UNUSUAL PAINTED WOOD MALE FIGURES
Ming dynasty
20 March 2023, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$3,187.50 inc. premium
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TWO UNUSUAL PAINTED WOOD MALE FIGURES
Ming dynasty
Each of very light weight and possibly palm wood, the larger standing figure depicting an attendant wearing a black cap, futou, and his face painted with flesh-colored pigments with black highlights and with a cloth draped over his clutched hands, his robe lightly painted in a pale green with simple rounded collar, and delicately carved with gently falling folds to his protruding feet and tied at the waist with a black and red-painted belt; the smaller standing figure set in a wide stance on a rounded oval base, and leaning, slightly quizzically, to one side and holding a tray, or possibly an open book, his robes with traces of green pigment and his face with white piments.
11 1/16in and 7 5/8in (28.2cm and 19cm) high (2).
Each of very light weight and possibly palm wood, the larger standing figure depicting an attendant wearing a black cap, futou, and his face painted with flesh-colored pigments with black highlights and with a cloth draped over his clutched hands, his robe lightly painted in a pale green with simple rounded collar, and delicately carved with gently falling folds to his protruding feet and tied at the waist with a black and red-painted belt; the smaller standing figure set in a wide stance on a rounded oval base, and leaning, slightly quizzically, to one side and holding a tray, or possibly an open book, his robes with traces of green pigment and his face with white piments.
11 1/16in and 7 5/8in (28.2cm and 19cm) high (2).
Footnotes
明 木雕彩繪官人像二件
Provenance:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York
Published: (tall figure)
Harris, "As Virus Tightens Grip on China, the Art World Feels the Squeeze," The New York Times, February 13, 2020
來源：
紐約藍理捷古董行
出版： (大件官人)
哈里斯，"As Virus Tightens Grip on China, the Art World Feels the Squeeze," 《紐約時報》，2020 年 2 月 13 日