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AN UNUSUAL PAINTED GRAY POTTERY HUMAN-HEADED FISH

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AN UNUSUAL PAINTED GRAY POTTERY HUMAN-HEADED FISH
WEI DYNASTY

The hollow, fish-form body with traces of white slip and dark red speckling, the amusingly modeled face also covered with a white slip and detailed in red and black beneath a tripartite coiffure, some earth encrustation--6 3/4 in. (7.l cm.) long

Lot Essay

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 566n97 is consistent with the dating of this lot