Large Chinese pottery cocoon jar incised with bands design. Cocoon jar sometimes called a "duck-egg jar", was used as a wine vessel during Han Dynasty.
Age: China, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. - A.D. 220
Measurement: Height 38.5 C.M. / Width 43 C.M.
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Large Chinese pottery cocoon jar incised with bands design. Cocoon jar sometimes called a "duck-egg jar", was used as a wine vessel during Han Dynasty.
Age: China, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. - A.D. 220
Measurement: Height 37.5 C.M. / Width 43.2 C.M.
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Chinese painted pottery court man wearing hat and tunic, with red, black and white pigments remaining.
Similar figure is presented in "Yanshi Shangcheng Museum" in China which is also in the book "From Eastern Han to High Tang: A Journey of Transculturation", published in 2005, page 172.
decorated with floral vine scrolls and Chinese characters, with attached wooden stand.
Age: Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Late 19th century
Measurement: Diameter 12 C.M. / Height 24 C.M. (including the wooden stand 27.8 C.M.)
Condition: Good condition, with minor da ...click for details
depicted as a life-like piece, with opened upper shell, movable eyes and claws, with the stamped mark of the silversmith on the interior of the lower shell.
Age: Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Circa 19th century
Measurement: Width 5 C.M. / Height 2 C.M. / Weight 20 Grams
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the cover topped with a model of Chinese Lion playing a brocade ball, the Chinese lion with movable eyeballs and tongue, the lower sides
decorated with panels of narrative scenes of elders and of birds on the branches.
Age: Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Circa 19th century
Measurement: 3 X 2.5 C.M. / Height 5 C.M. / Weight 53 Grams
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Rare Chinese painted pottery tomb guardian in the form of divine creature or sometimes known as earth spirit. This tomb guardian has animal's body but human face with bulging eyes, large ears and hoofed feet with red, white, and black pigments remaining. It has long and spiky horns spiralling up from the head. Its appearance is extremely fearsome.
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