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CHINESCO FEMALE FIGURE, TYPE C<br />
PROTOCLASSIC<br />
Ca. 100 B. C.-A. D. 250<br />
The pregnant female with legs outspread and toe demarcated,<br />
holding her left hand to her distended belly and balancing a bowl<br />
on her right shoulder, the heart-shaped face with slit eyes and lips<br />
parted, ears and nose pierced, wearing a close-fi tted red cap, and<br />
the body painted in a creamy slip with fi ne crosshatch black designs<br />
covering her whole torso, possibly tattoos.<br />
Height 30 cm<br />
Provenance<br />
Jean Roudillon Auction, Paris, 1970s, lot 101<br />
Type C fi gures are perhaps the most stylized and abstract of the<br />
Chinesco variants.<br />
€ 4 000 – 6 000