A LARGE RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT DOG

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A LARGE RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT DOG
HAN DYNASTY

The recumbent animal vigorously modeled in an alert pose, its short tail curled around, its long neck stretched, its head with bulging eyes, the top of its pricked-up ears slightly flopped forward, its nose raised and its mouth open in a droll and genial expression, traces of iridesced and worn green glaze--15¾in. (40.1cm.) high

拍品专文

A very similar brown-glazed figure of a dog, excavated from a late Eastern Han tomb at Quanping, Yichang in Hubei Province, is illustrated in Kaogu xuebao, 1976, no. 2, pl. 12, fig. 3

Another figure of this type was included in the exhibition, Treasures from the Shanghai Museum: 6,000 Years of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1983, Catalogue no. 53; one in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in the exhibition, Gems of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, Catalogue no. 7; and a third in the exhibition, Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, Catalogue no. 50, p. 16, fig. 4

A comparable amber-glazed, long-necked dog was sold in these rooms June 2, 1994, lot 234

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766a87 is consistent with the dating of this lot