AN AMBER-GLAZED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A DOG

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AN AMBER-GLAZED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A DOG
HAN DYNASTY

The alert, recumbent animal with long, upstretched neck, its ears pricked up, face set in a droll expression with mouth open to show its teeth, its whiskers freely incised, the short tail curled, covered in a rich amber glaze terminating irregularly short of the base to reveal the red pottery body--18in. (46cm.) high

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Another figure of this type was included in the Exhibition of Treasures from the Shanghai Museum: 6,000 Years of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1983, Catalogue, no. 53; one in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in the exhibition, Gems of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, Catalogue, no. 7; and a third in the Exhibition of Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, Catalogue, no. 50, illustrated p.16, fig.4

A very similar brown-glazed figure of a dog, excavated from a late Eastern Han tomb at Quanping, Yichang in Hubei province, is illustrated in Kaogu Xuebao, 1976, no.2, pl.12, fig.3