Lot 252. Two Painted Pottery Figures of Foreign Boys, Tang Dynasty (618-906); 10 and 113/8in. (25.4 and 28.9cm.) high. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price realised USD 3,760. © Christie's Image Limited

The smaller well modeled in grey pottery, the taller and more slender from buff pottery, each shown wearing a breech-cloth tied over short pantaloons, the taller figure also wearing a necklace and scarf draped around the torso, each with curly hair but of different ethnic type, with traces of red pigment. 

Exhibited: Taller figure: 
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Seeking Immortality: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Schloss Collection, 20 September 1998 - 3 January 1999, no. 88.
Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 6 October 1996 - 16 March 1997, no. 88. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art, New York, 21 September 2000