Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 march 2013.
Lot 79. Eight painted gray pottery figures of attendants, Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). Heights 11 3/8 in., 29 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 8,125 USD. © Sotheby's
modeled after wood prototypes, six with their hands folded and concealed by their sleeves, five with a hole to hold an implement, two with arms held out at waist level, each painted wearing patterned robes, their features painted in black and vermillion, with a display stand (16).
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 21st and 22nd September 2005, lot 242.
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 march 2013.