Description
Description: Chinese Tang dynasty straw glazed terracotta statue of a groom, more precisely a cameleer because modelled while holding camel’s reins, the body tilted in an effort to hold the animal. By its facial features, it is representing a bearded foreigner, Persian or Semitic.
It is worth to note that, as it happens to the greatest number of these molded mingqi statues, the head has been attached to the body, in a way that at first glance could looks as being a repair (as often seen in the description of these figures). The actual reason is that these statues were produced in almost industrial scale, and bodies and heads were separately molded. By matching different heads and bodies it was possibly to obtain a greater variety of figures.
This is well seen in the last four pictures: the first one is showing a different face on the same body of our figure, and the second image is comparing both bodies under the same point of view. Instead, the last two pictures are showing the same face of our figure on a different body.
Dating: Tang Dynasty (206 BC – AD 220)
Size: 35.5 cm high
Provenance: Antiquarian market
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