A Painted Grey Pottery Base Modeled as a Coiled Animal
A Painted Grey Pottery Base Modeled as a Coiled Animal

HAN DYNASTY

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A Painted Grey Pottery Base Modeled as a Coiled Animal
Han Dynasty
Hollow modeled as a recumbent winged mythical beast, its jaws wide open in a warning roar and its coiled body surrounding a tubular socket, with traces of white pigment
10in. (25.4cm.) across
Literature
E. Schloss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, Stamford, 1977, vol. II, pl. 17.
Exhibited
New York, China Institute in America, Art of the Han, 14 March - 27 May, 1979, no. 56.
Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Gallery, Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 28 September - 25 November 1990, no. 31.
Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 6 October 1996 - 16 March 1997, no. 142.

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