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Subject:Re: Odd statue of woman standing on a turtle
Posted By: rat Thu, Apr 27, 2017
Seems quite recent to me. Despite the missing animal head etc, it doesn't seem to have experienced much wear. The base may be dressed to give it an aged look, but the glaze is quite glassy and in some ways too uniform for me to think this is more than a few decades old. But who knows, I haven't seen another example before.
I can make out about half of the characters but not a coherent message. Usually inscriptions on stelae or religious figurines were documentary in some way (at minimum describing the reason for their creation and including a date for a stele and typically the donor's name and a date on a votive figurine), but this one has none of that and the script it is imitating is Zhou era or even earlier oracle bone stuff, and would not be found on a Wei or more recent carved stele. Unless someone can suggest some comparable and dated objects, I think you have a recent oddity, a knick knack rather than a collectible.
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