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PROPERTY FROM A HONG KONG PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A BROWN-SPLASHED FIGURE OF A
DOG AND A ROOSTER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
each modelled in the form of an animal and
detailed with cross-hatching and incisions,
covered in a transparent bluish glaze liberally
splashed in rust-brown
9.8 and 12.9 cm, 3⅞ and 5 in.
EXHIBITED
In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth Anniversary
Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 108.
HK$ 40,000-60,000
US$ 5,200-7,700
See a figure of a tortoise and snake and one of
468 a stork perched on rocks in the Museum of East
Asian Art, Bath, illustrated in Brian McElney,
Inaugural Exhibition Volume 1, Chinese Ceramics,
Bath, 1993, nos 65 and 67. The aforementioned
examples, attributed to the Northern Song
dynasty, were also executed in a similar brown-
splashed glaze, and shared closely related
modelling techniques such as the cross-hatching
on the bird’s wings and the facial features of the
animals.

北宋 灑褐斑釉陶犬及瑞雞
展覽：
《好古敏求－敏求精舍三十五週年紀念展》，
香港藝術館，香港，1995年，編號108

469
PROPERTY FROM A HONG KONG PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A ROOTWOOD ‘MOUNTAIN’
GROUP AND A CARVED BAMBOO
‘SCHOLAR’ BOX AND COVER
LATE QING DYNASTY –
REPUBLICAN PERIOD
the group carved in openwork as jagged
mountains with shelters and walls built with
bricks, the figures rendered engaging in various
activities; the cylindrical box carved with two
equestrian figures and attendants, the cover with
five bats amongst clouds
16 and 12.3 cm, 6¼ and 4¾ in.
469 HK$ 10,000-20,000
US$ 1,300-2,600

清末至民國 根雕山子及竹雕高士圖圓蓋筒

154 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比