A Chinese Han Dynasty Mingqi Pottery Vase, Han Dynasty, ca. 200 BCE - 200 CE Medium - Silver but intact and in excellent

but intact and in excellent condition overall

Carved black steatite cylinder seal carved with ten stylized linear anubis figures

Dimensions: Length: 25 inches (63

and approximately one-third of the rim is professionally restored

acquired through Tad Dale of Channing

A Chinese Han Dynasty Mingqi Pottery Vase, Han Dynasty, ca. 200 BCE - 200 CE Medium - Silver but intact and in excellenta green lead glazed Mingqi funerary vase, the terracotta clay body with tall fluted cylindrical neck incised with oscillating lines, the ovoid body with a pair of loop handles applied to the shoulder with two molded taotie faces. While ceramics undoubtedly served utilitarian functions, they were also used as funerary objects. During the Han dynasty, the Chinese often buried their dead with objects they would need in the afterlife. This ceramic jar was