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A rare large painted red pottery figure of a mythical beast, unicorn, Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)

A rare large painted red pottery figure of a mythical beast, unicorn, Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). © Christie's Image 2003 The powerful composite creature made in sections and shown with head lowered and body tensed for attack, the large bovine head modelled...

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Tags: Han Dynasty, unicorn, painted red pottery, figure of a mythical beast

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13 février 2016

A large impressed grey pottery tomb brick, Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220)

A large impressed grey pottery tomb brick, Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220). © Christie's Image 2003 Perhaps part of a door lintel, hollow and impressed with descending registers of long-tailed birds, trees, dragons and immortals ( xian ) and tigers running...

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Tags: Eastern Han dynasty, impressed grey pottery, tomb brick

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13 février 2016

A green-glazed red pottery tripod vessel and cover, lian, Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 8)

A green-glazed red pottery tripod vessel and cover, lian, Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 8). © Christie's Image 2003 The vessel raised on three kneeling bear supports and molded around the sides with archers on horseback, immortals ( xian ), and various...

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Tags: Western Han dynasty, tripod vessel and cover, Lian, green-glazed red pottery

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13 février 2016

A Sichuan burnished black pottery jar, Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)

A Sichuan burnished black pottery jar, Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). © Christie's Image 2003 Each side carved with two spirals that seem to issue from the base of the broad strap handles carved with conjoined circular medallions, with a finely hatchured...

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Tags: jar, Han Dynasty, Sichuan, burnished black pottery

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13 février 2016

A small impressed grey pottery globular jar with handle, Warring States period (475-221 BC)

A small impressed grey pottery globular jar with handle, Warring States period (475-221 BC). © Christie's Image 2003 Thinly potted and impressed with a fine mesh pattern ending below the sharply defined mouth rim, applied on one side with three small...

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Tags: Warring States Period, globular jar with handle, impressed grey pottery

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13 février 2016

A rare large red pottery jar and cover, Neolithic period, probably Qijia culture, circa 2050-1700 BC

A rare large red pottery jar and cover, Neolithic period, probably Qijia culture, circa 2050-1700 BC. © Christie's Image 2003 The tall body bulging somewhat before tapering to the flat base, with a pair of simplified animal-head handles applied below...

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Tags: jar and cover, Neolithic period, red pottery, circa 2050-1700 BC, probably Qijia culture

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13 février 2016

A burnished black 'egg-shell' pottery stem cup, Neolithic period, Longshan culture, 2nd half 3rd millenium BC (2500-2000 BC)

A burnished black 'egg-shell' pottery stem cup, Neolithic period, Longshan culture, 2nd half 3rd millenium BC (2500-2000 BC), Shandong Province. © Christie's Image 2003 Thinly potted, the deep cup with widely flared rim raised on a tall hollow stem with...

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Tags: Stem Cup, Neolithic period, Longshan culture, Shandong Province, 2nd half 3rd millenium BC (2500-2000 BC), burnished black 'egg-shell' pottery, collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III

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13 février 2016

A rare signed and inscribed rhinoceros horn ear cup, signed Bao Tiancheng, 17th-18th century

A rare signed and inscribed rhinoceros horn ear cup, signed Bao Tiancheng, 17th-18th century. © Christie's Image 2003 The translucent horn simply and elegantly carved in imitation of Han dynasty prototypes made from other materials, raised on a rounded...

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Tags: rhinoceros horn, 17th-18th century, Bao Tiancheng, ear cup

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13 février 2016

A landscape-carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century

A landscape-carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century. © Christie's Image 2003 The sides well carved in high relief with a river and trees growing from rocky ledges, with a large pine tree, rock and the trunk of a smaller tree forming the...

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Tags: libation cup, rhinoceros horn, 17th-18th century, landscape-carved

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13 février 2016

A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century

A rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th-18th century. © Christie's Image 2003 Well carved in high relief with birds perched in a prunus tree, a pair of pheasants and lotus plants and a peacock and prunus, the stem carved at one end a continuation of the...

Posté par Alain Truong à 18:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: libation cup, rhinoceros horn, 17th-18th century

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