HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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.