TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Compare a similar example dated to the eighth century from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection at the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, which is illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, p. 201, fig. 221. Also, compare one illustrated by E. Scholoss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture: From Han through Tang, Stanford, 1977, vol. 1, p. 76, fig. 12; and one in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Japan, 1976, vol. 11, col. Pl. 194. A similar amber and straw-glazed figure of a boar was sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2001, lot 125.

The result of Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence test no. C114k9 (13 October 2014) is consistent with the dating of this lot.