EASTERN HAN DYNASTY OR LATER

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A PAINTED STONE DOOR LINTEL
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY OR LATER
The rectangular panel is carved in low relief with three horse-drawn chariots, escorted by two equestrian guards, approaching a pair of figures bowing in reverence. The scene is framed on top and the sides by a frieze of sinuous knobby-vine interspersed by various animals, including a fox, a duck, an owl, a monkey and a deer. The lintel has traces of red, orange and white pigments.
63 in. (160 cm.) long

Provenance

Christie's Hong Kong, 24-25 October 1993, lot 536A.

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Lot Essay

Similar scenes of equestrians and horse-drawn, canopied chariots bordered by bands of knobby vines can be seen on two Eastern Han painted stone reliefs in the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated by C. Y. Liu, M. Nylan and A. Barbieri-Low in Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines”, Princeton, 2005, pp. 270-271, no. 12.

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