Lot Essay
Cf. the similar sculpture exhibited by Eskenazi and illustrated in Ancient Chinese Sculpture, Catalogue, June- July 1978, no.8; and others illustrated by O.Siren in Chinese Sculpture in the von der Heydt Collection, nos.11 and 12, in the Museum Rietberg, Zurich; by W.Willetts in Foundations of Chinese Art, pl.122; by Annette L. Juliano in Art of the Six Dynasties, pl.50, in the Fogg Art Museum; by René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection, pl.35; and by Alan Priest in Chinese Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Chinese Art, pl.XXIII, cat.no.13