EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)

Details

AN UNUSUAL PAINTED GREY POTTERY MYTHICAL BEAST-FORM STAND
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)
Crisply modeled as a crouching, winged mythical beast, with pricked ears, layered tail and a short mane extending to the rectangular socket in the back, painted in red and black with feather markings and other details on a cream ground
16 in. (40.7 cm.) long, wood stand

Provenance

Yin Chuan Tang Ltd., Hong Kong, 1998.
Greenwald Collection no. 75.

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Lot Essay

A similar figure excavated from an Eastern Han tomb at Xianyang, Shaanxi, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji; Diaosu bian 2; Qin Han Diaosu, Beijing, 1985, vol. 2, p. 48, pl. 129. See, also, the similar pair included in the exhibition, Visions of Man in Chinese Art, Kaikodo, 17 March - 19 April 1997, no. 32; and another sold in these rooms, 16 September 1999, lot 265.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. test no. C198b75 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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