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TWO BROWN SPLASHED 'QINGBAI' FIGURES OF OFFICIALS SONG DYNASTY

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TWO BROWN SPLASHED 'QINGBAI' FIGURES OF OFFICIALS
SONG DYNASTY

each figure standing on an hexagonal base wearing an official's hat and long draped robe, one holding a tablet against his face, the other with a pig's head, covered overall with a translucent and very pale blue colour with splashes of dark iron-brown
Quantity: 2
20.7 and 19.8 cm, 8 1/8 and 7 3/4 in.

Provenance:
Iron in the Fire. The Chinese Potters' Exploration of Iron Oxide Glazes, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 79.


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TWO BROWN SPLASHED 'QINGBAI' FIGURES OF OFFICIALS
SONG DYNASTY

each figure standing on an hexagonal base wearing an official's hat and long draped robe, one holding a tablet against his face, the other with a pig's head, covered overall with a translucent and very pale blue colour with splashes of dark iron-brown
Quantity: 2
20.7 and 19.8 cm, 8 1/8 and 7 3/4 in.

Provenance:
Iron in the Fire. The Chinese Potters' Exploration of Iron Oxide Glazes, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 79.

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