LXH68:pair Tang Painted Statue Pottery Alme Figure

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LXH68:pair Tang Painted Statue Pottery Alme Figure

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Sold Date: 05/15/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

LXH68:pair Tang Painted Statue Pottery Alme Figure

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LXH68:pair Tang Painted Statue Pottery Alme Figure

ITEM DATA

Dimension : length: 12 INCHES, breadth: 6 INCHES, Height: 20 INCHES ,

Period : Han Dynasty/ 206-220 BC.

Material : pottery

Provenance : Old Chinese private collection

Shipping fee : US $230.00 (EMS)by Air Post Mail

Condition : Good, with some original pigments, some color fading, small chips and minor deterioration with possible areas of expert restoration is common in burial pieces of this age .

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Pottery:
The invention of pottery was an important progress in the history of human civilization. The earliest pottery pieces that were made in the Old Stone Age which have been found in Heniwan region of Yangyan county in Hebei province. According to it, Chinese ceramic industory has already had a long history for about 5000 years.
The pottery was made of clay in fire after modeled and dried. Early in the primitive society, they used it in all aspects. During the long living period in the primitive society, they found the dried clay became harder and waterproof after heated in fire, thus pottery was invented, which made human history entering a new era that man used nature, transformed nature and struggled with nature. It was a milepost in the history of human production development.

Anenst Han Dynasty:
After the civil war that followed the death of Qin Shihuangdi in 210 B.C., China was reunited under the rule of the Han dynasty, which is divided into two major periods: the Western or Former Han (206 B.C.? A.D.) and the Eastern or Later Han (25?20 A.D.). The boundaries established by the Qin and maintained by the Han have more or less defined the nation of China up to the present day. The Western Han capital, Chang'an in present-day Shaanxi Province?aa monumental urban center laid out on a north-south axis with palaces, residential wards, and two bustling market areas?awas one of the two largest cities in the ancient world (Rome was the other).
Poetry, literature, and philosophy flourished during the reign of Emperor Wudi (141?6 B.C.). The monumental Shiji (Historical Records) written by Sima Qian (145?0 B.C.) set the standard for later government-sponsored histories. Among many other things, it recorded information about the various peoples, invariably described as "barbarian," who lived on the empire's borders. Wudi also established Confucianism as the basis for correct official and individual conduct and for the educational curriculum. The reliance of the bureaucracy on members of a highly educated class grounded in Confucian writings and other classics defined China's statecraft for many centuries.
Under Wudi, China regained control of territories, first conquered by Qin Shihuangdi, in southern China and the northern part of Vietnam. New commanderies were established in Korea, and contacts were made with the western regions of Central Asia. The conquest of Ferghana and neighboring regions in 101 B.C., which allowed the Han to seize a large number of the "heavenly" long-legged horses valued for cavalry maneuvers, also gave China control of the trade routes running north and south of the Taklamakan Desert. In return for its silk and gold, China received wine, spices, woolen fabrics, grapes, pomegranates, sesame, broad beans, and alfafa.
Disputes among factions, including the families of imperial consorts, contributed to the dissolution of the Western Han empire. A generation later, China flourished again under the Eas...