Lot 1097
1097
A JAPANESE HANIWA EARTHENWARE FIGURE OF A WILD BOAR
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A JAPANESE HANIWA EARTHENWARE FIGURE OF A WILD BOAR

KOFUN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY

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A JAPANESE HANIWA EARTHENWARE FIGURE OF A WILD BOAR
KOFUN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY
Of low-fired reddish clay with flacks of mica, modeled as a wild boar set on two columns representing legs, the lower portion of the columns missing
19 ¾ in. (50.2 cm.) long
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212 636 2000

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Lot Essay

For similar haniwa figures of wild boars, including an Important Cultural Property in the Tokyo National Museum, see Kobayashi Yukio, Haniwa, vol. 3 of Nihon toji taikei, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1996, figs. 56-57.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. N115a21 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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