AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED DOG

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AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED DOG
HAN DYNASTY

The hollow-molded figure modeled in an alert attitude, with head raised and turned to the side towards the viewer, the mouth open exposing the tongue and canine teeth and the large ears pricked above circular vent holes, with deep, incised lines delineating the muzzle, cheeks and angular brows above the rounded eyes, covered in a finely crackled glaze of olive tone shading to a darker hue on the head and to amber on one side of the neck
15in. (38.1cm.) high

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics I, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 50

Exhibited

Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, November 9, 1996-January 25, 1997, no. 17

Lot Essay

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

Another figure of this type was included in the exhibition, Treasures from the Shanghai Musuem, 6,000 years of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1983, Catalogue, no. 53; one in the Asian Art Museum in San Franciso wasin the exhibition, Gems of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, Catalogue, no. 7; and a third was included in the exhibition, Chinese Art from The Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, Catalogue, no. 50

Compare, also, the examples sold in these rooms, June 2, 1994, lot 234 and December 1-2, 1994, lot 358

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 866b51 is consistent with the dating of this lot