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Lot Essay
Although this model is found in Chinese porcelain in a variety of sizes and with considerable variation in the decoration, the glaze combination of the present lot appears to be unrecorded. The exact prototype for this model is not known, and although comparisons have been made to hounds brought into China by the Portuguese from the 16th Century onwards, one must also note the similarity to the bony, long-muzzled hound depicted in Chinese art from the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 A.D.) onwards.
Similar models of various sizes and variously decorated are illustrated by D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol. II, no. 620, p. 596, together with a larger hound as no. 621; by C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no. 223, p. 198; by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, 1994, nos. 328 and 329, pp. 272 and 273; by J. G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, 1960, pl. 73 for the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection example; by J. A. Lloyd Hyde, Oriental Lowestoft, 1964, pl. XII, no. 29; and by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, 1991, no. 63, p. 139 for a particularly large example.
Similar models of various sizes and variously decorated are illustrated by D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol. II, no. 620, p. 596, together with a larger hound as no. 621; by C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no. 223, p. 198; by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, 1994, nos. 328 and 329, pp. 272 and 273; by J. G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, 1960, pl. 73 for the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection example; by J. A. Lloyd Hyde, Oriental Lowestoft, 1964, pl. XII, no. 29; and by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, 1991, no. 63, p. 139 for a particularly large example.