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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Chinese Works of Art & Ceramics (Part II)
• Sale Date:
  12 Dec 2016 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  127
• Lot Description:
  A Rare Painted And Incised Brown And Red Lacquer Earcup, Western Han (206BCE-9CE)
  thinly constructed and finely decorated on the interior, with painted lacquer and incised needle-point geometric designs around the inner border, the slightly recessed base and on the "ears", standing on a flat base
  14.2 cm long, 11 cm wide
• Provenance:
  Private Collection, Osaka, Japan
• References:
  see the Tokyo National Museum, A Mysterious World of Ancient Designs: Lacquerware from the Tombs of Hebei, China, 1998, cat. no. 83, p. 114 for two similar black lacquer ear cups; Also see Transition to Empire, Art from the Warring States to Han China, March 2011, cat. no. 11, Courage and Joy, for an almost identical example
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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