Lot Essay
Two similar figures are illustrated by Mitsuru Uragami in Animal Farm in Yue Ware, Tokyo, 1992, nos. 1 and 2. See, also, Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in The Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, no. 71a for a closely related example
Compare the very similar vessel from the Barlow Collection, illustrated by Gomperz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1958, pl. 9A; see, also, the animal-form vessels of this type excavated from Western and Eastern Jin tombs published in Kaogu 1955:5, pp. 43-49, pl. 14, no. 7; Wenwu 1957:9, p. 80; and Kaogu 1965:4, pl. 210, fig. 2, no. 1
Compare, also, the urn excavated from the Western Jin tomb in Juyong district, Jiangsu, dated 294 A.D. and illustrated in the excavation report published in Kaogu 1976:6, p. 396
Compare the very similar vessel from the Barlow Collection, illustrated by Gomperz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1958, pl. 9A; see, also, the animal-form vessels of this type excavated from Western and Eastern Jin tombs published in Kaogu 1955:5, pp. 43-49, pl. 14, no. 7; Wenwu 1957:9, p. 80; and Kaogu 1965:4, pl. 210, fig. 2, no. 1
Compare, also, the urn excavated from the Western Jin tomb in Juyong district, Jiangsu, dated 294 A.D. and illustrated in the excavation report published in Kaogu 1976:6, p. 396