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Details
- Other Title
- Figure of a lady (mourner)
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Eastern (later) Han dynasty 25 - 220 CE → Han dynasty 206 BCE - 220 CE → China
- Date
- 25 CE-220 CE
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware with traces of pigment over white slip
- Dimensions
- 42.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mr Sydney Cooper 1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- EC14.1962
- Copyright
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About
With her hands clasped within the voluminous sleeves of her costume, this is among the finest of the Han dynasty figures in the collection. Her distinguished demeanor suggests she represents a courtly attendant. Typically such models were made from moulds, the parts then luted together and the details finished by hand before the firing process. The figure was then covered with a white slip, which served as a base for the detail painting of which only traces remain.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1965–12 Sep 1965
Early Chinese art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Feb 1983–08 May 1983
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Asian Art', pg. 106-113, Sydney, 1984, 106 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon, The Connoisseur, 'Far Eastern Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 22-29, London, May 1980, 24 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon, The Australian Antique Collector, 'Chinese tomb figures in the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 96-101, Chippendale, Jan 1981-Jun 1981, 98 (colour illus.). fig.no. 5
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Mr V V W Fretwell, Mr L G Harrison, Ivan McMeekin and J. Hepburn Myrtle (Compilators), Chinese ceramics, Sydney, 1965, 18, 34 (illus.). cat.no. 14, plate no. 3
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Tomb Sculpture', Sydney, 2003, 81 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies, Early Chinese Art, Sydney, 1983, (cover illus.) not paginated. cat.no. IX. See 'Further Information' for text.
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Jackie Menzies, Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Chinese Art', pg. 18-29, Sydney, 1990, 20, 21 (colour illus.).
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Judith White, Look, 'Journey to the heart of China', pg. 17, Melbourne, Jun 1999, 17 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Sydney Cooper, 1962, Australia, donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Jan 1962.