A SICHUAN PAINTED POTTERY BOAR

HAN DYNASTY

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A SICHUAN PAINTED POTTERY BOAR
Han Dynasty
The squat animal standing foursquare looking forward, the tail swept to one side, some earth encrustation
12in. (30.5cm.) long

Lot Essay

See M. Tregear, Arts of China: Neolithic Cultures to the T'ang Dynasty: Recent Discoveries, Tokyo, 1968, pl. 303 for a similar boar excavated at Foeryai, Changming, Sichuan province.