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Female Attendant
Unrecorded artistWestern Han dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE), about 2nd century BCE
- Attribution
- China; probably Shaanxi province
- Medium
- Gray earthenware with slip and polychrome pigments
- Physical dimensions
- 57.2 × 18 × 14.8 cm (22 1/2 × 7 1/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection, gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
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This figure wears the narrow, calf-length robe distinctive of servants. Her facial features, characteristically masklike and serene, are framed by long hair, which is parted and tied in a bun at the nape of her neck. Her cupped hands may originally have held a staff.
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