HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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A RARE PAIR OF PAINTED POTTERY GOOSE-FORM VESSELS AND COVERS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Each vessel is modeled as a plump, seated goose, with neck curved in an S-shape and the head of bird is pierced with a circular aperture to fit a separately-modeled cover decorated with three bears.
13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1998.

Literature

Eskenazi Ltd., Animals and animal designs in Chinese Art, London, 1998, p. 43, no. 11.

Exhibited

New York, Eskenazi Ltd., Animals and animal designs in Chinese art, 24 March-4 April 1998.

Lot Essay

Compare the smaller (21 cm.) pair of painted pottery ducks dated to the Han dynasty, 1st century BC or 1st century AD in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. 1, London, 1994 p. 49, fig. 14. Like the present pair of goose-form vessels, the Meiyintang vessels also have apertures for stoppers, but their stoppers are now missing.

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