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Chinese, Han Dynasty

206 BC – 220 AD

Burial object: Tortoise – presumably from the province Sichuan. 1st/2nd century AD

Stoneware, remains of a coloured version. 26 × 57 × 43 cm (10 ¼ × 22 ½ × 16 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Chinese, Han Dynasty. Burial object: Tortoise – presumably from the province Sichuan. 1st/2nd century AD.

Estimate:

EUR 12,000

 

- 15,000

USD 13,200

 

- 16,500

Sold for:

33,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2019

ORANGERIE Big Animals. Big Shots, Thursday, 28.11.2019

Information

Stoneware, remains of a coloured version. 26 × 57 × 43 cm (10 ¼ × 22 ½ × 16 ⅞ in.). Catalogue raisonné: With a thermo-luminescence-certificate by Oxford Authentication Ltd., no. C103k58, from 15.5.2003, which states the age as 1.500 to 2.400 years.

Related literature and comparable objects: auction 9184: Myth and Reality. Animals in Chinese Art. Los Angeles, Christie's, 7.5.1999, cat. no. 39 / China paper, Sichuan-province: Tortoise, 1st/2nd century AD, Portland, Portland Museum, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection of Early Chinese Art, Inv-no. 2004.114.11 .

Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Seltene Ausgrabungen in China. Vienna, Galerie Zacke, 2000, cat. no. 21