Lot 286
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ANOTHER PROPERTY
A MASSIVE SICHUAN PAINTED RED POTTERY MODEL OF A BOAR

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A MASSIVE SICHUAN PAINTED RED POTTERY MODEL OF A BOAR
HAN DYNASTY

The stocky animal standing four-square with head bent forward for foraging, with small tusks rising from the sides of its mouth, the eyebrows knotted and the short tail coiled, earth and plant encrustation, discoloration to left rear leg
22 in. (56cm.) long

Lot Essay

Compare a very similarly modeled pig, excavated at Foeryai, Changming, Sichuan, but smaller in size (32 cm. long), illustrated by Akiyama et al., Arts of China, Neolithic Cultures to the T'ang Dynasty, Recent Discoveries, Tokyo, 1968, p. 170, fig. 303