Chinese Western Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Attendant Figure SALE

This pottery model of a male attendant, or servant, was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). The figure stands with hands clasped together under a wide-sleeved robe. Note the presence of purpose-made holes above and below where the hands would be where a flag or banner (?) would originally have been placed diagonally, and presumably made of wood so long since rotted away and lost. It is made from a relatively highly-fired grey pottery and has been cold-painted in a particularly thick powdery white pigment on top of which are black and other coloured pigments. 

Height 30 cm (12 inches). Condition is very good; although there is, as should reasonably be expected, some loss of surface pigment, there is no sign of any restoration or repair.

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