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A PAINTED STONE DOOR LINTEL A RARE LARGE POTTERY TILE OF A TIGER
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY OR LATER HAN DYNASTY (220 BC-AD 220)
The rectangular panel is carved in low relief with three horse-drawn chariots, The tile is modeled in relief with a tiger with pronounced stripes emerging
escorted by two equestrian guards, approaching a pair of figures bowing in from the right side and stretching its forelegs.
reverence. The scene is framed on top and the sides by a frieze of sinuous
19º in. (48.6 cm.) wide, softwood frame
knobby-vine interspersed by various animals, including a fox, a duck, an owl, a
monkey and a deer. The lintel has traces of red, orange and white pigments.
$10,000-15,000
63 in. (160 cm.) long
PROVENANCE:
C.T. Loo (according to label).
$6,000-9,000
Christian Humann (d. 1981), Pan Asian Collection, New York.
PROVENANCE:
Christie's Hong Kong, 24-25 October 1993, lot 536A. EXHIBITED:
On loan: Denver Art Museum, prior to 1983.
Similar scenes of equestrians and horse-drawn, canopied chariots bordered
A very similar striding tiger can be seen decorating a pottery title illustrated
by bands of knobby vines can be seen on two Eastern Han painted stone
in, “A Brief Report on the Cleanup of Hollow Brick Han Tombs in Xianyang
reliefs in the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated by C. Y. Liu, M. Nylan and A.
City,” Kaogu 1982:3, pl. 1:1.M34. See, also, the Eastern Han pottery
Barbieri-Low in Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of
architectural element molded with more stylized depictions of tigers, which
the “Wu Family Shrines”, Princeton, 2005, pp. 270-271, no. 12.
are shown flanking a bi disc, illustrated by Olov Jansé in Briques et Objets
Céramiques Funéraires de l'Epoque des Han, C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris, 1936, pl.
顯赫私人珍藏 XVIII (3a-c), and later sold at Christie’s New York, Fine Chinese Art from the
東漢或以後 彩繪石雕車馬紋門楣 Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 18 March 2009, lot 319.
來源:
私人珍藏
香港佳士得, 1993年10月24-25日, 拍品編號536A
漢 虎紋陶磚
來源:
盧芹齋（據標籤）
Christian Humann (1981年逝), 泛亞藝術珍藏, 紐約
展覽:
借展: 丹佛美術館, 1983年前

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