TWO UNGLAZED POTTERY MUSICIANS AND A DANCERTang DynastyOne lady modelled as a dancer standing with head tilted to one side and looking in the direction of her raised arm, wearing a long flowing dress with long sleeves that fall to the ground, the other two ladies kneeling with their legs tucked under their dresses, one playing the xiao, the other a qin. The tallest 26cm (10 1/8in) high (3).Footnotes:Provenance : Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1998Jonathan Tucker and Antonia Tozer, Asian Art, London, 2002An English private collectionSee related figures of dancers and musicians, Tang Dynasty, excavated in 1972 from the tomb of Zheng Rentai, Liquan County, Shaanxi Province, and now in the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum, illustrated by C. Michaelson, 'Gilded Dragons: Buried Treasures from China's Golden Ages', London, 1999, no.39.