HAN DYNASTY

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An olive-green-glazed red pottery figure of a dog
Han Dynasty
The hollow-moulded figure modelled in an alert attitude, with head raised and turned to the side of the viewer, the mouth open exposing the tongue and canine teeth and the large ears pricked up, with deep incised lines delineating the muzzle, cheeks and angular brows above the rounded eyes, covered in a finely crackled glaze of olive tone, some restoration
39.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

For a similar brown-glazed figure of a dog excavated from a late Eastern Han tomb at Quanping, Yichang in Hubei province see, Kaogu Xuebao, 1976, no. 2, pl. 12, fig. 3; and another one in the exhibition, Treasures from the Shanghai Museum, 6.000 Years of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1983, Catalogue, no. 53.

Compare also, the examples sold in our New York Rooms, June 2, 1994, lot 234, December 1-2, 1994, lot 358 and March 20, 1997, lot 47.

The result of the Oxford Authentification Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. 666t69 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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