Terracotta figure representing a rabbit in an alert position. He is sitting on his hind legs and looking straight ahead. Preserves the original pigments.

The Han dynasty was an era of great economic, technological, cultural and social progress in China. Their society was ruled by an emperor who shared power with an official bureaucracy and a semi-feudal nobility.

The society in the Han dynasty consisted of a stage of ancient China between the years 200 a. c-220 d. C., divided into the Western Han (206 BC-AD 9) and Eastern Han (25-220) periods.

The Han Chinese domesticated and ate chickens, mandarin ducks, geese, camels, cows, sheep, pigs, and dogs. The type of game animals included rabbit, sika deer, turtle dove, goose, owl, Chinese partridge, magpie, common pheasant and crane, while fish and turtles were taken from streams and lakes. .

The piece includes Thermoluminescence Test. QED LABORATORY - FRANCE

Status: Earthy deposits on the surface.

Provenance:

- MLF Private Collection, Madrid. Bought at an antiques dealer in Hong Kong. 22x27cm