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    FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

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    18 September 2003

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    • A PAINTED GREY FIGURE OF A MYT
    Lot 199

    A PAINTED GREY FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST

    HAN/JIN DYNASTY, 3RD CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 1,434

    Estimate

    USD 1,500 - USD 1,800

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    A PAINTED GREY FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
    Han/Jin dynasty, 3rd century
    The stocky beast shown in mid-stride, its bovine head lowered, modeled with three flame-like spikes issuing from the neck and flattened bosses along the spine, with muscular haunches supported on knife-cut legs, its long, tapered tail curved upward, extensive traces of white slip and red pigment, earth encrustation
    10½in. (26.7cm.) long

    Provenance

    The Hardy Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from the Sze Yuan Tang, Christie's, New York, 21 September 1995, lot 24.

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    Lot Essay

    Similar examples are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed. p. 57, no. 50; in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 13, Tokyo, 1962, no. 123; and in Kandai no bijutsu, 'The Art of the Han', Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1976, no. 1-118.

    Comparable figures have been sold in these rooms, June 3, 1988, lot 127; and another from the Scheinman Collection, March 23, 1995, lot 23.

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