CHINA - HAN Pair of superb lidded wine vases with traces of red, yellow and white slip polychromy on black clay, decorated in three horizontal registers, the neck with a geometric design filled with clouds, the shoulder with cloud circles, the body with a frieze of arabesques and crosses. H. 30 + lid 32 cm With a thermoluminescence test by Ralf Kotalla Kätzling 2 D-72401 Haigerloch-Weildorf Nr. 990715 dated 16.07.1999 attesting the Han Dynasty dating, 206 BC - 8 AD, ref. 41 i.e. -154 Reference number: Purchased from "Blue Elephant" St. Servaasklooster 38, 6211 TE Maastricht Holland