HARP PLAYER

Description The young player, part of a group that includes four other players and a dancer, is depicted sitting cross-legged on a thin square base, playing a harp with both hands raised to chest height. The girl has a round face, with traces of pink make-up on her cheeks and red on her mouth. On the forehead, a triangular inlaid floral motif (huadian) is drawn in red between the eyebrows. The black hair is parted in the middle and is combed into a double-bun hairstyle (shuangji). The player wears a low-cut bodice with long, narrow sleeves, a red banbi-type waistcoat, and a wide draped skirt encircled below the chest, which covers the legs entirely and falls on the pedestal. A long red scarf, stuck in the belt at the left breast, passes over the shoulders and descends to the right side, then falls back onto the base of the figurine.