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WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
Details
A CHINESE GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY VASE, HU
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The compressed body with molded taotie mask and ring handles on the shoulder between grooved bands, with another grooved band encircling the neck, raised on a tall foot, covered with a green glaze now degraded to a silvery iridescence
16½ in. (41 cm.) high
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The compressed body with molded taotie mask and ring handles on the shoulder between grooved bands, with another grooved band encircling the neck, raised on a tall foot, covered with a green glaze now degraded to a silvery iridescence
16½ in. (41 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gump's, San Francisco, 19 August 1937 ($1,400).
Special notice
Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.