Fine Chinese Western Han Dynasty Round Pottery Box

This fine-quality round pottery box, complete with original cover, was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a fine-grained grey pottery and quite highly-fired, both box and cover having a distinct ring when tapped. The design of this box is very simple yet also elegant and pleasing to the eye. Its purpose was that of a food container.

This is quite a large vessel with a diameter of 20.5 cm (8 inches), height 15 cm (6 inches). It is in exceptional condition with no sign of restoration or repair. 

For information: this is from a group of four similar vessels we acquired some 15 years ago, all reported to have come the same excavation, one of which we had TL tested in 2010 by Oxford Authentication Ltd. Each item is now being offered for sale separately. The stock numbers of the other items are MC053, MC054 & MC055, MC055 being the vessel that has been TL tested).

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