mportant ancient Chinese tall pair male and female attendants handmade and hand glazed in green, amber colors and highlighted with black and red painted pigments, Ming dynasty 1368-1644. Superb quality.

The statues each are dressed in long gowns with long sleeves, their hands caressing important attributes needed in the afterlife:
a tea pot and male smokers accoutrements.

They are richly glazed in still vibrant colors- a superior feature not often found on these works of art and representative of an important tomb which deserved highest quality pottery representations.

These figures are extremely detailed and beautifully glazed and highlighted in red and black cold painted pigments. Most of the original colors remain intact. The figures were often placed in a north-south direction in coffin Chambers to represent the progress of time. People hoped that such an arrangement would encourage the gods to visit and to guard the tomb.

This scarce kind of collection is infrequently found in wealthy tombs of the elite and wealthy ancient Ming Chinese.

Dimensions: 32 inches tall and 10 inches wide

Condition: Handmade and hand glazed. Superb quality, all figures are original and intact with finely preserved glazes and pigments. As with most tall Ming dynasty sculptures of this caliber, their bodies were crafted are in two parts and with heads which are removable typical of this period.

Provenance: Old European collection originally acquired in Hong Kong 1990s and legally imported into the USA.