"A Chinese amber-glazed pottery figure of a boar
A Chinese amber-glazed pottery figure of a boarprobably Tang dynastyDepicted with a tall bristle mane, standing four square, the glaze falling short of the rectangular base, revealing the pale buff body.
H: 5 in.PROVENANCE:John D. Rockefeller #205 (by repute)
E. & J. Frankel
Property from a Private Collection, Main Line, Philadelphia, acquired from the above, November 8, 1990
LITERATURE: For a similar brown-glazed boar, see the example sold Sotheby's, New York, November 6, 1981, lot 148; compare also the chestnut-glazed boar from the collection of the C. C. Wang Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's, New York, November 27, 1990, lot 36.
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A Chinese amber-glazed pottery figure of a boarprobably Tang dynastyDepicted with a tall bristle mane, standing four square, the glaze falling short of the rectangular base, revealing the pale buff body.
H: 5 in.PROVENANCE:John D. Rockefeller #205 (by repute)
E. & J. Frankel
Property from a Private Collection, Main Line, Philadelphia, acquired from the above, November 8, 1990
LITERATURE: For a similar brown-glazed boar, see the example sold Sotheby's, New York, November 6, 1981, lot 148; compare also the chestnut-glazed boar from the collection of the C. C. Wang Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's, New York, November 27, 1990, lot 36.
