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Lot Essay
In Chinese folklore, boars symbolize the wealth of the forest.
For a related boar with a more uniform glaze, dated to the 8th century from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection at the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, see W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, p. 201, no. 221. Compare, also, one illustrated by E. Schloss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture: From Han through Tang, Stamford, 1977, vol. 1, p. 76, fig. 12, and the boar with cream and brown glaze included in the Catalogue of the exhibition, Tang Sancai Pottery Selected from the collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, The Park Lane Hotel, London, 10 - 13 June 1989.
For a related boar with a more uniform glaze, dated to the 8th century from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection at the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, see W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, p. 201, no. 221. Compare, also, one illustrated by E. Schloss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture: From Han through Tang, Stamford, 1977, vol. 1, p. 76, fig. 12, and the boar with cream and brown glaze included in the Catalogue of the exhibition, Tang Sancai Pottery Selected from the collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, The Park Lane Hotel, London, 10 - 13 June 1989.