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110 A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
HAN DYNASTY
漢 灰陶瑞獸

the beast modeled standing four square, with head lowered and muscular haunches bracing as if about to charge, the crown
and neck with three imposing pointed horns, a row of four studs along the spine, continuing to a long tail curled back, the right
hind leg with a large grooved spiral, with traces of white slip and red pigment all over

Width 16¼ in., 41.8 cm
$ 5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Compare a related figure included in the exhibition Art of the Han, The China Institute in America, New York, 1979, cat.
no. 40, where Ezekiel Schloss discusses how the composition of different animal’s elements was said to give special
supernatural powers to the mythical creature. See similar examples illustrated by René-Yvon Lefbvre d’Argencé,
The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, Japan, 1973, cat. no. 40, and R.L. Hobson, The Eumorfopoulos Collection,
vol. I, London, 1925, pl. XVII, 128. Compare one exhibited in Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb
Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 1990, cat. no. 32, sold recently in
these rooms, 15th September 2018, lot 1390 (part lot). For other examples sold in these rooms, refer to one sold 2nd
November 1979, lot 144, and 12th June 1984, lot 124. Another related figure sold in our London rooms, 15th July 1980,
lot 5.

比較一例，曾展於華美協進社，《Art of the Han》 一載於 Candace J. Lewis，《Into the Afterlife: Han
，1979年，編號40。再比一例，圖見René-Yvon and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the
Lefbvre d’Argencé，《The Hans Popper Collection Schloss Collection》，編號32，售於紐約蘇富比2018年
of Oriental Art》，日本，1973年，編號40，以及 R.L. 9月15日，編號1390（其一）。紐約蘇富比曾售數例，售
Hobson，《The Eumorfopoulos Collection》，卷1， 於1979年11月2日，編號144及1984年6月12日，編號124
倫敦，1925年，圖版XVII, 128。此外尚可比較數例，其 。倫敦蘇富比亦曾售一例，售於1980年7月15日，編號 5。

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