Pair of pottery soldiers wearing lamellar breastplates and helmets, standing in slightly bent stance, one of their arms half-raised, heads lightly bowed. The faces of the soldiers are finely moulded with an expressive frown. The grey pottery is unglazed and partly covered in red pigment. 
 
Provenance:
 
Formerly in the collection of D. David-Weill (1871-1952)
Eskenazi, London, 1980
Formerly in the collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson
Sotheby's London, 1972
 
Published:

Sotheby's London, David-Weill, 29 February 1972, lot 4
Eskenazi, Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson, 12 - 20 December 1980, no. 8