Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A SMALL WHITE-GLAZED STONEWARE FIGURE OF A RABBIT
Lot 897

A SMALL WHITE-GLAZED STONEWARE FIGURE OF A RABBIT

CHINA, TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Closed24 September 2020

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A SMALL WHITE-GLAZED STONEWARE FIGURE OF A RABBIT
CHINA, TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Shown seated, covered with a transparent glaze over a white slip, the eyes picked out in brown glaze
3 7/8 in. (9.6 cm.) high

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, deaccession no. 56-675.
Alice Boney Chinese Art, New York, 9 March 1956.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Specialist note


A similar blue-glazed figure, dated first half of the eighth century, in the Tokyo National Museum, is illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York 1984, p. 214, pl. 249.