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A LARGE AND RARE GREY POTTERY Provenance: Priestley & Ferraro, 27 March This form is rare in that published examples of
MODEL OF A LONG-EARED OWL 2003 (invoice) and label to base. pottery owls from the Han Period are usually
Western Han Dynasty in the form of a vessel and cover, rather than a
Modelled as a plump seated owl with long Published: Animals for the Afterlife, Han complete model.
pricked ears and a crest rising from the short Dynasty, Priestley and Ferraro Chinese Art,
beak, with incised linear designs, a circular November 2002, catalogue no. 13. Examples of owl form vessels in bronze,
aperture to the top of the head, the wings of which the present lot is a descendent,
folded back neatly against the body The unusual form of this owl bears a are extant from the Shang Period and were
28.5cm. (11.1/4in) high. resemblance, with the exception of the ears, among the most commonly depicted subject
to a painted lacquer owl-shaped vessel for animal-form vessels from this period.
£3,000 - 5,000 excavated from a Warring States tomb in
CNY26,000 - 44,000 Sichuan, Illustrated in ‘Zhongguo Wenwu Compare with a very similar pottery figure of
HK$29,000 - 48,000 Jinghua Daquan, A Compendium of Chinese an owl, The Hardy Collection of Early Chinese
Cultural Treasures’, Works of Art Volume, Ceramics and Works of Art from the Sze Yuan
p. 157. Tang, Christie’s New York, 21 September
1995, lot 13.

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A YUEYAO OLIVE GREEN GLAZED ‘LION’
VESSEL
Western Jin Dynasty
The recumbent beast with head raised and
mouth open bearing its fanged jaws, crisply
carved to simulate the fur, terminating in coils
at the sides and haunches, supporting a
cylindrical vessel on its back.
14cm (5.1/2in) long.
£5,000 - 8,000
CNY44,000 - 71,000
HK$48,000 - 77,000
Provenance: E. Pranger Oriental Art,
Amsterdam, 26 October 2000 (invoice).

The result of Oxford Thermoluminescence
test number P200b30 (21 September 2000)
is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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