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  1. Brown Glazed Pottery Dog
  2. Han Dynasty
  3. (206 B.C - A.D. 220)
  4. Height            28.4cm
  5.      This is no doubt 
  6. funerary ware that was 
  7. once buried with the 
  8. deceased in a Han tomb.  
  9. Pottery dogs have been  
  10. found in many Han tombs, 
  11. often together with 
  12. pottery. Such funerary 
  13. ware was intended to 
  14. accompany the deceased 
  15. into the afterlife.