A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BARKING DOG HAN DYNASTY

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A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BARKING DOG HAN DYNASTY
Shown standing four-square on small star-form feet, with head raised, mouth open in a bark and ears curved forward alertly, wearing a studded harness molded with two large overlapping loops as if for attachment to a chain, the long, thin tail coiled to one side, covered overall in a leaf-green glaze degraded in areas to a silvery iridescence, some restoration--13in. (33cm.) long

拍品專文

A very similar dog with the same kind of feet is illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, col. pl. 3

Other similar dogs are in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in the Catalogue of Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, no. 130, and in the Idemitsu Museum illustrated in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, no. 393

Compare also the very similar dog sold in these rooms June 4, 1987, lot 136