R1095
£4,500
Description
A Chinese green lead glazed standing figure of a dog, the head looking forwards with well defined eyes and pointed snout with whiskers, the ears pricked up, wearing a collar joining a harness, his tail curled over his back, the glaze covered with silver iridescence from burial.
9 ¾ inches, 24.8 cm long, 8 ½ inches, 21.6 cm high.
Han Dynasty, 206BC-220AD
Condition
It is in overall good condition, however, it has a line around the top part of the back left leg which does not fluoresce under UV light; this means it is unlikely that the leg has been off, however we could not categorically rule out the possibility that it has. It also has two small drill holes for the Oxford test, one is in the base of the paw, and the other is in the base of the back side.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in an English private collection.
- Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence test certificate no. C119n30.
- This is a particularly rare model and we have been unable to find a similar example.
Similar Items
M4950
A Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white small saucer dish, painted in the centre in luminous vivid tones, with three scaled mythical animals including a qilin, a monkey headed qilin and an elephant headed animal, together with a tiger and a dragon emerging from rockwork beneath ruyi clouds, with a pine branch, other plants, rockwork and flowerheads, encircled with a continuous border of a lotus pound with pairs of geese, ducks, cranes and other birds amongst lotus flowers, leaves, arrow heads and aquatic leaves, the underside with six branches of pomegranate, hibiscus, persimmon, morning glory, peach and another flowering branch. Japanese wood box.
The base with a six character mark of Wanli within a double ring and of the period, 1573-1619.
6 3/8 inches, 16.2 cm diameter.
2. M5045
£15,000Chinese pottery straw glazed ovoid jar and cover, guan, with four double-loop handles at the shoulder above an incised line repeated on the cover surmounted by a flat knop, covered overall in an even straw glaze falling short of the buff-coloured foot rim with a further incised unglazed line on the lower body, the interior covered in an olive-green glaze with three spur marks in the well.
Total height with cover 10 inches, 25.5 cm.
Late Sui – early Tang dynasty, late 6th – early 7th century.
S1720
£6,000Blue and white moulded leaf shape dish on three bracket feet painted in the reverse technique in the form of a single leaf with central spine from which everted striped lines emit, painted with stylised water drops beneath a serrated edge.
7 3/4 inches, 19.6 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
