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Han POTTERY STOVE

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Asian Antiques Start Price:375.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
Han POTTERY STOVE
Online Auction only, with advance bids accepted at iCollector and at the Gallery. No live bidding
in the Gallery, and tie bids go to the earliest bidder. All proceeds will go 100% to the World Peace Foundation Building Fund of Hadley, MA.
A large tomb sculpture (mingqi or "grave goods") of grey stoneware manufacture, these tomb Stoves have been well-published. This example has fine and elaborate upper surface scribed decoration, with a nice "chimney", but a firing crack and replaced sidewall break and some roughness around the large upper hole limit its price to the bargain level. Thus it is a nice-looking example with likely glazing of its upper decorated surface, that is within the range of most collectors.