HAN DYNASTY(206 BC-AD 220)

細節

A LARGE GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A DOG
HAN DYNASTY(206 BC-AD 220)
Powerfully modelled in a seated position with tall, thick-set neck and animated head raised in an alert attitude, covered overall with a green glaze now iridesced to gold
12¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high

來源

Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 1987, lot 79.

拍品專文

Compare a related pottery dog excavated from an Eastern Han tomb in the northern suburbs of Yichang, Hebei, illustrated in Kaogu Xuebao, 1976:2, pl. 12, fig. 3. See a similarly modelled dog, but glazed in brown, included in the exhibition, Treasures from the Shanghai Museum: 6,000 Years of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1983, p. 89, no. 53. See, also, a slightly larger amber-glazed dog, sold in these rooms, 2 June 1994, lot 234.