WARRING STATES-HAN DYNASTY, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

These figures are similar in their spontaneous carving style, which leaves the traces of the knife visible, to that of Han wooden figures found in the area of Wuwei, Gansu, which suggests that these figures too, are from the northwestern regions. See the figures of oxen in Gansusheng Museum, illustrated in Wuwei Handai mudiao, Beijing, 1984, pp. 9-12. See, also, the two stylistically similar pottery figures, a boar and a horse, sold at Christie's New York, 1 December 1998, lots 187 and 188.
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666k76 is consistent with the dating of this lot.