Height: 16 inches, 40.5 cm
Width: 9 inches, 23 cm
Marble sculpture of the body of a Bodhisattva
China, Tang dynasty, 618 - 906
A white marble sculpture, depicting the headless body of a Bodhisattva, seated in ‘royal ease’
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Height: 11 3/4 inches, 30 cm
Pottery figure of a groom in foreign dress
China, Tang dynasty, 618 – 906
A pottery figure of a groom, standing on a rectangular base with chamfered corners. His feet are placed some distance
Height: 4 1/4 inches, 11 cm
Width: 6 1/4 inches, 16 cm
Pottery jar with impressed textile pattern
China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475 - 221 BC
A pottery jar with a bulbous body that rises up from
Height: 15 inches, 38 cm
Length: 11 inches, 28 cm
Pottery caparisoned horse
China, late Northern Wei to Eastern Wei dynasty, mid 6th century
A pottery model of horse, depicted striding, with the front right leg and the back right
Height: 14 inches, 35.6 cm
Bronze ‘garlic head’ bottle vase, Hu
China, Western Han dynasty, 206 BC – 8 AD
A bronze vase, the compressed globular body supported on a tall, gently tapered foot, and surmounted by a flared neck,
Height: 23 1/2 inches, 61 cm
Length: 21 inches, 53.5 cm
Width: 9 inches, 22.8 cm
Red pottery horse
China, Western Han dynasty, 206 BC – 8 AD
A pottery horse standing foursquare with powerfully modelled head and strongly arched
Diameter: from 3 inches, 7.6 cm to 1 5/8 inches, 4.2 cm
Five hardstone rings
China, late Neolithic period, 4th century BC
Five circular hardstone discs, each with a round hole cut to the centre, leaving apertures of varying width,
Length of pig: 6 3/8 inches, 16.2 cm
Height of pig: 3 1/8 inches, 7.9 cm
Length of sow: 6 1/2 inches, 16.5 cm
Height of sow: 2 1/2 inches, 6.4 cm
Pottery group of pig, sow and piglets
China,
Height: 6 3/4 inches, 17 cm
Length: 5 1/2 inches, 14 cm
Bronze ritual vessel of fangding form
China, Shang dynasty, Anyang period, 12 - 11th century BC
A bronze ritual vessel of rectangular ding form, fangding. The vessel
The works of art illustrated in this catalogue were offered for sale by Ben Janssens Oriental Art at the European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, 2020.