A painted pottery figure of an ox, Eastern Wei dynasty
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Description
Length 26.7 cm, 10½ in.
Po Yuen Tong, Hong Kong, 6th February 1999.
Nicholas Grindley, London, 31st March 2018.
Nicholas Grindley, London, 1999, cat. no. 2.
Compare a closely related ox uncovered from the Eastern Wei tomb of a princess uncovered in Cixian, Hebei, illustrated in Wenwu, 1984:4, pl. V:1 and reproduced alongside other related oxen in In the Company of Spirits, Kaikodo Journal, Spring 1999, p. 182.
The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., sample no. C298k8.
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