Property from Carnegie Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund
A rare gilt-bronze 'ram' zodiac figure, Tang dynasty
Auction Closed
March 19, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Height 7⅛ in., 18.2 cm
Collection of George Hathaway Taber (1859-1940), prior to 1935, and thence by descent.
Gifted to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1955 (accession no. 55.47.14).
Far Eastern Art, a Memorial Exhibition from the Collection of George H. Taber, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1958.
See a related gilt-bronze 'tiger' zodiac figure from the collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, and later donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sold in these rooms, 10th September 2019, lot 64.