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Friday 18 March 2016

Morning Session at 10:00 am
(Lots 1471-1603)

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 1471
ANOTHER PROPERTY
1471
1472

A MASSIVE SICHUAN GREY POTTERY MODEL OF A DOG A RARE AND UNUSUALLY LARGE PAINTED GREY POTTERY
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220) FIGURE OF A TRICORN
LATE EASTERN HAN-SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD (3RD-4TH CENTURY
The fgure is modeled as a dog standing foursquare, with its head AD)
tilted up and ears alertly pricked, the mouth open in a warning growl,
and the tail curled up onto the rump. The sturdy beast is shown mid-stride with its horned bovine head
lowered, and its long tail with curled tip is raised. A raised strip along
27 in. (68.7 cm.) long the backbone is applied with three fat knobs. There are traces of
white slip and black pigment and extensive earth encrustation.
$6,000-8,000
17æ in. (45 cm.) long
PROVENANCE
$8,000-12,000
Christie’s New York, 4 June 1992, lot 206.
PROVENANCE
Large mastif-like dogs such as the present example, are generally depicted
in alert postures, either seated or standing. A dog shown baring its teeth, Christie’s New York, 1 December 1988, lot 180.
snarling, from Majiashan, Xinduxian, and another from Bijiashan, Suiningxian,
are illustrated in Wenwu ziliao congkan no. 9, Akiyama Terukazu, et al, Arts This unusually large fgure of a rhinoceros-like beast closely resembles
of China: Neolithic Cultures to the T’ang Dynasty - Recent Discoveries (Tokyo, one from a Western Jin dynasty (AD 265-317) tomb in Zhengzhou, Henan
1968), nos. 304-307; and Kaogu xuebao 1958, no. 1, (pp. 87-104), pl. IX; and province, illustrated in Kaogu Tongxun, 1957:1, no. 1, pl. XIV:4. A similarly
Kaogu 1988, no. 3, p. 223, fg. 6:7. large, but slightly smaller (43.8 cm.), pottery fgure of a tricorn in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by S. G. Valenstein in A
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666a37 is consistent with Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, p. 57, no. 50.
the dating of this lot.
漢 四川灰陶立犬 The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. C115n72 is consistent with
the dating of this lot.
東漢晚期/六朝 彩繪灰陶三角獸