EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (25-220)

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A LARGE IMPRESSED GREY POTTERY TOMB BRICK
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (25-220)
Probably part of a door lintel, hollow and impressed on the front and back with descending registers of long-tailed birds, trees, horses and chariots, and bands of archaic scrolls, with two circular apertures in top, some restoration to base
30½ in. (77.5 cm) high, wood stand

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Please note that the result of the Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence analysis test no.C104u85 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

Lot Essay

A hollow tomb brick impressed with a row of similar trees is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, see He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 72, no. 58. Compare also the example sold at Christie's New York, 18th September 2003, lot 194.

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