Lot n° 332
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EUR
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: 450EUR
China. Head of a soldier used as a funerary statuette (mingq - Lot 332
China. Head of a soldier used as a funerary statuette (mingqi), also known as a stickman. Grey terracotta and flesh-colored slip with remnants of black paint on the hair. China. Early Han period (206 B.C. - 9 A.D.). H. 11.5 cm (excluding base). Old chips on the back. Beautifully expressive
An army of over 6,000 comparable infantrymen was discovered in the 1990s in the mausoleum of Emperor Jingdi (157-141 BC) in Yangling. Cf. exhibition catalog Splendeurs des Han, essor de l'empire céleste, Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, 2014, p. 71-75. In France, similar examples are kept at the Cernuschi and Guimet museums, cf. G. Béguin, Le Petit peuple des tombes, Paris musées, 2010, p. 28-29.
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