Eastern Zhou Dynasty (4th Century BCE) Elegantly but simply carved as standing attendants, most likely female, each with a large oval 'Brancusi-like' modernist head with large and striking scooped-out ovals to each side of the face topped by arched brows, two large black-painted almond-shaped staring eyes centered by a slender nose bridge with triangular tip, a simple down-turned crescent incised for the mouth with traces of red pigment, each missing one of the large ears pierced for earrings, traces of painted robes in red, black and earthy-beige pigments to the ribboned and hemmed garments that show traces of double-tied-sashes with circular bi-like discs attached down the narrow sides and a simple red-pigment band below the shoulders on the backs, the robes fall gracefully in a gently spreading cone from the high-waisted bust to the hems at their feet, each with rounded shoulders and out-curving slender arms with square mortise holes carved to accept separate hands, losses. 28in (71cm) high (2).