Lot 422
  • 422

A BROWN-SPLASHED FIGURE OF A TIGER NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 HKD
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Description

  • ceramics
  • 14 cm, 5 1/2  in.
the recumbent animal with its head turned backwards, with incised details, covered in a transparent glaze liberally splashed in russet-brown

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.

Condition

The tiger is overall good condition with expected occasional firing imperfections.
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Catalogue Note

See a figure of a tortoise and snake and one of 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. See also a figure of a hen and another of a dog belonging to the same group, sold in these rooms, 30th November/1st December 2017, lot 468.