Lot 1277
1277
A PAIR OF LARGE GREY POTTERY FIGURES OF BUFFALOS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 
A PAIR OF LARGE GREY POTTERY FIGURES OF BUFFALOS

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

Details
A PAIR OF LARGE GREY POTTERY FIGURES OF BUFFALOS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Each boldly modeled standing foursquare with head slightly lowered and ears pricked behind the horns, the well-defined body with muscular back and haunches, traces of earth encrustation
27 in. (68 cm.) long, stands (2)
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 6 December 1989, lot 78.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similarly modeled grey pottery body and head of a buffalo of smaller size (39.8 cm. long) illustrated in Kandai no Bijitsu, Osaka Museum of Art, 1974, p. 15, no. 1-119, which shows how these large figures were made in sections, with the legs made separately.

The result of Oxford thermoluminescense test nos. 466y92 and 466y93 are consistent with the dating of this lot.

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