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A CHESTNUT-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE 唐 褐釉陶豬
OF A BOAR 來源
TANG DYNASTY (618-907) 埃斯肯納齊，倫敦
The boar is naturalistically modelled standing foursquare on short
legs on a rectangular base with head facing forward and short tail 著錄
flicked to one side. It is incised with hair markings. All is covered 埃斯肯納齊，倫敦，1972年3月，圖錄編號31
with a chestnut-brown glaze falling to the base around the hooves.
The base is unglazed. 此器經牛津熱釋光測年法測試〈測試編號C114k9，2014年10月13日〉，
8 º in. (21 cm.) wide 證實與本圖錄之定年符合。
HK$50,000-80,000 US$6,500-10,000
PROVENANCE
Eskenazi Ltd., London

LITERATURE
Eskenazi Ltd., London, March 1972, Catalogue, no. 31
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.

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