Ending 26th Jan, 2025 11:17
Four-Day Auction: Timed Auction Asian Art
1703
1 week, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes and 36 seconds
A POTTERY TOMB FIGURE OF A FARMER
€150
€300
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China, probably Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220 AD. Modeled standing, dressed in rope-tied sandals, and a tight tunic over a shorter garment secured by a belt suspending a long sword, the face with a serene expression below a small, squared cap.
Provenance: Austrian private collection.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age as expected from Han dynasty excavations. Small losses, few chips, repairs to the legs, firing cracks, and soil encrustations. The implement in his left hand lost.
Weight: 5,168 g
Dimensions: Height 59 cm
Agriculture was considered the foundation of the Han empire, with canals being dug, fields irrigated and new technologies introduced. Families were moved to the empire's periphery to bring new lands under way and all farming lands were owned by nobles, officials and wealthy merchants who grew very powerful.
Literature comparison:
A related pottery figure of a farmer, Eastern Han dynasty, is in the collection of the Sichuan Provincial Museum, Chengdu, is illustrated by J.Rawson, Mysteries of Ancient China, London, 1996, p.211, fig.113.
Auction result comparison:
Compare a related Sichuan pottery figure of a farmer, 110 cm tall, dated to the Eastern Han dynasty, at Bonhams, Asian Art, 6 November 2018, London, lot 536 (sold for GBP 1,250).
China, probably Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220 AD. Modeled standing, dressed in rope-tied sandals, and a tight tunic over a shorter garment secured by a belt suspending a long sword, the face with a serene expression below a small, squared cap.
Provenance: Austrian private collection.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age as expected from Han dynasty excavations. Small losses, few chips, repairs to the legs, firing cracks, and soil encrustations. The implement in his left hand lost.
Weight: 5,168 g
Dimensions: Height 59 cm
Agriculture was considered the foundation of the Han empire, with canals being dug, fields irrigated and new technologies introduced. Families were moved to the empire's periphery to bring new lands under way and all farming lands were owned by nobles, officials and wealthy merchants who grew very powerful.
Literature comparison:
A related pottery figure of a farmer, Eastern Han dynasty, is in the collection of the Sichuan Provincial Museum, Chengdu, is illustrated by J.Rawson, Mysteries of Ancient China, London, 1996, p.211, fig.113.
Auction result comparison:
Compare a related Sichuan pottery figure of a farmer, 110 cm tall, dated to the Eastern Han dynasty, at Bonhams, Asian Art, 6 November 2018, London, lot 536 (sold for GBP 1,250).
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Auction: Four-Day Auction: Timed Auction Asian Art, ending 26th Jan, 2025
Bidding starts on Wednesday, 1 January, and lots start closing at 11 AM on Sunday, 26 January
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