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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

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