CHINESE TERRACOTTA FUNERARY BRICK DEPICTING A DEER - TL TESTED. Han Dynasty, Ca. 202 BC - AD 220 A funerary brick depicting a large deer in central relief, extending across a thick, rectangular brick. The deer is depicted frontally, its head powerfully emerging from the plane of the slab. Size: 480mm x 330mm; Weight: 21.570 kg. Provenance: From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed before 2000 on the UK /European art markets. This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla.