Lot Essay
Related glazed pottery recumbent dogs include the example illustrated in the catalogue for the Exhibition of Treasures from the Shanghai Museum: 6,000 Years of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1983, no. 53; one in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco included in the exhibition, Gems of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, no. 7; and a third in the Exhibition of Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, no. 50, illustrated p.16, fig.4.