Particularly large and elegant Tang dynasty (618-907) Chinese painted pottery figure of a court lady, modelled as wearing long robes falling in heavy folds, holding a circular mirror in her left hand and re-arranging her full coiffure, the rounded face painted with thick eyebrows and carved with rosebud mouth. Provenance: previously sold at Christie’s Amsterdam, 3 May 2005, lot 203; from a private collection. Height 53 cm,