Fine & Rare Chinese Jin Dynasty Painted Pottery Tile - Entertainer

This impressive pottery tile was made during the Jin Dynasty (AD 1115 - 1234). It is made from a relatively high-fired grey pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, traces of which still remain.

Theatre, the arts, music, performances were a very popular part of life during this period in Shanxi province, from where this tile has been excavated. The subject of this tile is a particularly lively performer, a dancer or entertainer - note the details of the clothing, face and hairstyle.

Height 28.5 cm, width 20 cm. There is a chip to the end of the vulnerable left foot, but overall condition is very good, with no restoration or repair.

A book we highly recommend for anyone interested in Song, Jin, Yuan Dynasty pottery tiles is the excellent Shanxi Museum / China Institute book, "Theater, Life and the Afterlife" (ISBN 978-7-03-032940-0)

For information: see also our other very similar tile, stock number MB676. We originally sold both of these tiles in the 1990s to a private collector and have recently been lucky enough to have bought them back from the estate of that late collector.

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