PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN COLLECTION A MASSIVE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A COURT DIGNITARYTang dynasty Standing with a solemn yet gentle expression, the well-modelled face with finely painted details below a high court headdress, the official wearing a voluminous crimson robe with wide sleeve-ends in cream painted with large scrolling foliage motif, secured by a fitted breastplate similarly decorated with traces of gilding still remaining, the hands clutched in front leaving a small opening between the thumbs possibly holding a tablet, now missing, the fan-shaped tip of the shoes emerging from the hem, all supported by a rock form base. 38 7/8in (98.8cm) high 唐 彩繪文官陶俑 Provenance: American Private Collection J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 2005 The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 2005-2022 Exhibited: Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection , J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 28 March - 16 April, 2005 Published: Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection , J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 2005, no. 7 出處： 美國私人藏品 紐約藍理捷中國藝術，2005 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，2005-2022 展出記錄： 《中國古瓷：美國私人藏品》，藍理捷中國藝術，紐約 2005 年 3 月 28 日至 4 月 16 日，展品第七號 出版記錄： 《中國古瓷：美國私人藏品》，藍理捷中國藝術，紐約 2005 年，第七號 A very similar gilded and painted pottery figure of a court official, also with hands clasped possibly holding an attribute, is excavated from the tomb of Li Siben (dated by epitaph to A.D. 706) and illustrated in the excavation report, The Tang Tombs in Yanshi Xingyuan , Beijing, 2001, pl. 6-5 and in a line drawing on p. 40, pl. 35-1, with further description on p. 38. Another similar court dignitary of smaller size in the collection of the Tenri University, Sankokan Museum, Japan, is illustrated in Sui To no bijutsu (Art of the Sui and Tang Dynasties), Osaka Municipal Museum, Tokyo, 1978, no. 158. pare also a court dignitary of this type from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum , London, 1980, no. 10.