Late Western/early Eastern Han Dynasty, Lingbao region, Henan province Six figures moulded on a square seating platform supported at each corner with scalloped legs mounted flush with the top, five of which dressed in long robes and hats, one holding a paixiao (pan flute) and four probably singing, and surrounding a figure glazed in light brown playing a gong on the ground by his right foot in a comical mask and holding his loose trousers up with his left hand and holding a small green-glazed object in his right hand, all other figures and the tableau glazed in lean green. 21cm (8 1/4in) long x 21cm (8 1/4in) wide x 19.1cm (7 1/2in) highFootnotes西漢晚期至東漢早期 綠釉舞樂俑 Illustrated and Published: R.D. Jacobsen, Celestial Horses & Long Sleeved Dancers, Minneapolis, 2013, p.98 出版及著錄: R.D. Jacobsen著，《Celestial Horses & Long Sleeved Dancers》，明尼阿波利斯美術館，2013年，頁98 Exhibited: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2008-2021 (Loan number:L2007.158.1) 展覽: 明尼阿波利斯美術館， 2007年至2021年 (借展編號： L2007.158.1) The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.C107y67 on 27 July 2007, is consistent with the dating of this lot. 牛津鑒定公司熱釋光檢測結果（2007年7月27日編號C107y67）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。 The fashion of creating settings with groups of individual pottery figures of musicians, dancers, game players and their audiences emerged by the Warring States period but became more popular in the Han Dynasty. Entertainments were important and diverse in intellectual life in the Han Dynasty. The small green object held in the brown-glaze figure's right hand, probably is a wine grin, with his left hand pulling up his loose trousers with a dramatic face, it indicates that he probably is playing a comical performance with the musical accompaniment of the five figures. Compare the figure in the centre with a jade carving of a figure in a similar posture, Eastern Han Dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong on 5th April 2016, lot 35. 方台座，壸門，台上捏塑五人圍繞中間一人，五人之中一人持排簫，四人縱歌，中間一人頭戴笑臉面具，右手持一物似骰，下身著露臀袴，左手作提舉狀，右腳擊鑼，除中間面具人施淡褐釉，其餘滿罩綠釉。 漢代貴族及士族聚會常有百戲演出，最早可以追溯到春秋戰國時期，而盛大流行在東漢。秦漢時期百戲也稱為角抵，《史記·李斯傳》：「是時二世在甘泉，方作角抵俳優之觀。」《漢書·武帝紀》文穎注曰：「（角抵）蓋雜技樂也。」《後漢書·平帝紀》記載延平元年（106年）十二月乙酉「罷魚龍曼延百戲」，可證百戲乃宮廷娛樂重要項目。 此組樂俑正中之面具俑所跳為漢代流行之盤鼓舞，有用一盤至七盤之別，舞時將盤、鼓置於地上，舞人踏之、圍繞而起舞，可能源於春秋戰國之楚國祀神樂舞，相關介紹見蕭亢達著，《漢代樂舞百戲藝術研究》，北京，2010年，頁165。與此形象相似的例子可參考一件東漢玉雕樂舞俑，2016年4月5日售於香港邦瀚斯，拍品編號35。