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THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY COLLECTION, NEW YORK
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TWO GREY POTTERY RECTANGULAR TOMB BRICKS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC - AD 220) PROVENANCE:
The first is of grey tone and impressed on either side in the center with Christie's London, 11 December 1989, lot 59.
five parallel rows of lozenge-shaped panels, each containing small Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1251.
raised bosses, set between two rows of rectangular panels, each
containing a face or a single human figure, and all enclosed by borders A smaller, square-form tomb brick in the Royal Ontario Museum,
of peacocks in profile, and short, serrated lines. The second is of beige Toronto, is impressed with similar panels to those seen on the second
tone and impressed on either side with a similar pattern of panels, but brick, but in a different order, and is illustrated in Chinese Art in the
of varying number to the first, and is also impressed with double circles Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1972, p. 149, no. 99. It features a row
between the lozenge-shaped panels of the central section. The upper of three archers on horseback, with the same inscriptions found on
and lower panels exhibit imprints of a masked warrior, two horses the present brick, a row of the two archers in front of a building, and a
in front of a building, or an archer on horseback, six of which have row of masked warriors, all enclosed by a similar peacock border.
inscriptions that possibly read ru shan, chu dong bei, tu zi bai (enter the
mountains, exit the northeast region, [caught] one hundred rabbits),
and ba qian li (eight thousand li), and are all enclosed within borders of 漢 畫像磚兩件
small chevrons and similar serrated lines.
36½ x 15¼ in. (92 x 38.7 cm.) and 38 x 14¼ (96.5 x 36.2 cm.), stone
stands (2)

$6,000-8,000