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A POTTERY TOMB PILASTER Exhibited A LARGE POTTERY MODEL OF A
Han Dynasty at the Klagenfurt Museum, Austria, circa STANDING LADY
Impressed with repeat registers of foliate and 2005. Han Dynasty
geometric designs to the column front and The figure wearing long, flowing robes, the
three repeated panels of guardian figures to Provenance hands held together, at the front, concealed
each of the two flat side faces, with apertures Sze Yuan Tang, A.J. Hardy Collection no. beneath voluminous sleeves, the hair pulled
for assembly at the top and bottom. 70.5cm CP47 (label). back in a knotted ponytail, decorated in red,
high (27 3/4in) high white and black pigments, perspex stand.
Stoneware pillars such as the current lot 53cm (20 7/8in) high (2).
£2,000 - 3,000 formed part of the entrance construction
HK$19,000 - 29,000 to a tomb chamber. The combination of £1,000 - 1,500
CNY17,000 - 26,000 decorative subject matter reflected a dualistic HK$9,700 - 15,000
view of the human soul: separating at death, CNY8,500 - 13,000
one part of the soul was thought to remain in
the earthly tomb, while the other ascended Provenance
to a paradise—the realm of ancestral spirits An English Private Collection.
and of the special beings who have achieved
immortality.

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