A white-glazed stoneware figure of a seated hare, Tang dynasty | 唐 白釉坐兔

Please note that the measurement for this lot should read: Height 3⅞ in., 9.8 cm. 請注意本拍品的尺寸應為：Height 3⅞ in., 9.8 cm。

Compare a similar figure of a hare, similarly detailed with brown pigment, in the Percival David Foundation, now in the British Museum, London, published in the Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ting and Allied Wares, London, 1980, p. 9, no. 2. Another from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy, London, 1935, cat. no. 989. A third example, in the Meiyintang Collection, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, pl.1396.