The sculptor has skillfully rendered the goat’s facial features, including its eyes, snout, and ears, giving it a life-like appearance, which is typical style of Han dynasty animal statues. The Pottery Horse Head auction reference below also showcases red and orange tones, along with brown and white traces and life-like carving style. The black stand was made in Hong Kong at the time of the acquisition.
Period : Han Dynasty(206 BCE to 220 CE) Type : Statue Medium : Pottery Terracotta Condition : Good(Right horn and left ear repaired) Provenance : Acquired in late 1990s from Hong Kong Reference : Sotheby‘s Hong Kong 14 July 2021 - Eclectic - Lot 2058 (Price realised : 30,240 HKD / Type : Closely related) https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/eclectic/a-pottery-horse-head-han-dynasty-han-tao-ma-shou
