TERRACOTTA ATTENDANT FIGURE TANG DYNASTY Representing a male servant or groom, shown wearing a knee length Persian style coat, tied at the waist and with wide lapels Footnote: This lot is sold with an Oxford thermoluminescence certificate of authenticity. Published: Schloss, E. 1979. Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture: From Han through Tang. Stamford: Castle Publishing. Plate 137. Provenance: From the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Schloss, acquired 1950's-1990's. Ezekiel Schloss is one of the most famous names in ancient Chinese ming-chi (terracotta figure) art. Together with his wife Lillian, he was a prolific collector, well respected authority and author of the major publication "Ancient Chinese ceramic sculpture from Han through T'ang". Schloss arrived in the US from Latvia in 1940. He was an accomplished cartoonist, working for many years at the New York times. The Schloss collection is rare in that it truly represents an educated collection of art; Schloss was immersed in Chinese ming-chi art and only collected beautiful examples of specific types, as well as the unusual, the charming and the rare.