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Fine Chinese Art 13 May 2021 New Bond Street, London | New Bond Street, Fine Chinese Art Fine Chinese Art I New Bond Street, London I 13 May 2021 26626 Lot 82 (detail) Lot 8 Fine Chinese Art New Bond Street, London | Thursday 13 May 2021, 2pm BONHAMS GLOBAL HEAD, BIDS Please see back of catalogue for important notice to bidders 101 New Bond Street CHINESE CERAMICS - Bid online/APP AND WORKS OF ART London W1S 1SR Register to bid online by visiting Asaph Hyman To submit a claim for refund of VAT, www.bonhams.com/26626 bonhams.com HMRC require lots to be exported ENQUIRIES from the UK within strict deadlines. 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FINE CHINESE ARTLot | 75 1 A PAINTED POTTERY MODEL OF AN OX Tang Dynasty Naturalistically modelled standing confidently four-square on a rectangular base with detailed facial features, with rounded eyes, flaring nostrils, and an open mouth beneath a pair of pricked ears, the strapwork harnesses across its rump and head relief moulded with raised circular bosses, retaining the original red pigment. 26cm (10 1/4in) long. £4,000 - 6,000 CNY36,000 - 54,000 唐 彩繪陶牛 Pottery models of animals were incorporated in burials within a complex of furnishing, which included figures of courtiers, soldiers, attendants, as well as scenes of daily entertainment, aimed at sustaining the ancestors in their afterlife. Related pottery figures of oxen, Tang dynasty, are illustrated by Qin Tingyu, Zhongguo Gudai Taosu Yishu, Shanghai, 1955, pl.50; see another example, Tang dynasty, illustrated by M.Prodan, The Art of the T’ang Potter, London, 1960, pl.61, 1 from the Eumorfopoulos collection, now in the British Museum, London. Compare with a related pottery model of an ox, Tang dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby’s London, 9 November 2016, lot 286.
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