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SHEEP Tomb Companion

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Asian Antiques Start Price:180.00 USD Estimated At:280.00 - 380.00 USD
SHEEP Tomb Companion
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.
White-coated Greyware Sheep that was Mingqi from the Han Dynasty or thereabouts. White was the color of Immortality and Transformation of the Spirit into the next world, and coated animals for the tomb were important substitutes for killing the real animal. It was "the Spirit that counts"! Seated with his head slightly turned to the left, he also may have been considered a guardian spirit. Shaanxi Province, 5-3/8" nose to tail, circa 100AD +/-.