NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (386-534)

Related pottery hounds from the Northern Wei dynasty have been published, including one of similar style but smaller in size (16.4 cm. long), illustrated in ‘Luoyang Shachangxilu Beiwei HM555 fajue jianbao’, Wenwu, September 2002, p. 14-15. Compare also to a grey pottery figure of a dog dated to the Northern dynasties, early 6th century, which is also finely sculpted with its head raised in an attentive pose, illustrated in Susan L. Beningson, ‘Highlights from the New Arts of China Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2020, p. 54, fig. 12.