Figure of a Court Lady
Early 8th century
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with traces of unfired pigments over white slip, 16 x 5 x 6 in. (40.6 x 12.7 x 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1986.76
Amply proportioned court attendants—men as well as women—were favored
during the early 8th century, a time when vessels were also characterized by
rounded profiles and the sense of an animating interior volume.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1986; Sotheby's, New York
Sotheby's, New York, sale 5469, 6/3/1986, lot. 167.
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 8, p. 18, ill. p. 19.
On View: Levy Gallery 2, Case 09/A
