Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (482)

This antique Chinese lock has a nicely patinated surface and is is working order. Measures 3.8 inches across.

This old relic field marker was dug up by a friends father while doing archaeological research (i.e. digging up fields) in China years ago. For centuries, during planting,such markers were commonly buried in the fields as a talisman for a bountiful harvest. It is made of clay, high fired stoneware, and has a few chips missing...as to be expected after being buried in a field.....