Lot 24. A painted pottery figure of a guardian, Wei Dynasty (386-550 AD); 32cm (12 1/2in) high.. Sold for 2,422.50 € (Estimate 400-600 €). Photo Fabrice Gousset.

Finely modelled as a standing foreigner wearing full armour and helmet framing the foreign facial features, clad in a winter cape lined with fur, traces of dark red, olive-brown, grey, white and black pigments. 

Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981), acquired prior to 1935.
Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021).

Note: Compare with a related pottery figure of a soldier, Wei dynasty, from the Robert Rousset collection, in Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated by J-P.Desroches, Compagnons d'Eternite', Paris, 1981, p.125.