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A MASSIVE SICHUAN GRAY POTTERY SEATED MASTIFF Eastern Han Dynasty image 1
A MASSIVE SICHUAN GRAY POTTERY SEATED MASTIFF Eastern Han Dynasty image 2
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GREENWICH CONNECTICUT COLLECTION
Lot 83

A MASSIVE SICHUAN GRAY POTTERY SEATED MASTIFF
Eastern Han Dynasty

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

US$8,000 - US$12,000

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A MASSIVE SICHUAN GRAY POTTERY SEATED MASTIFF

Eastern Han Dynasty
Looking to its left with expressive eyes and pricked-up ears, the well-fitted harness around the body and secured at the sturdy neck with a collar, a curled up tail at its haunches, the surface covered with a white slip and earth encrustations throughout.
30in (76cm) high; 25in (63.5cm) deep; 12in (30cm) wide

Footnotes

東漢 四川灰陶獒犬

Provenance:
Po Yuen Tong Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000
Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

來源:
香港寶源堂,2000
康乃狄克州格林威治鎮私人藏

A very similar pottery mastiff in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art is illustrated on the museum's website, accession number 1999.2A-B.

The results of the thermoluminescence testing are consistent with the suggested dating of this lot, Oxford Authentication sample No. C100c62, 7 February 2000.

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