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PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A PREGNANT SOW, HAN DYNASTY 漢代罕見黑彩灰陶孕母豬

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 124

PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A PREGNANT SOW, HAN DYNASTY 漢代罕見黑彩灰陶孕母豬

Schätzpreis
6.000 €
ca. 6.933 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

China, 202 BC to 220 AD. Realistically modeled standing foursquare with head facing forward, with large floppy ears, thin wavy tail and low, full belly modeled with nipples, covered overall in black pigment with brown speckles over white priming. Provenance: Estate of Sir Victor Sassoon (according to a handwritten note on the accompanying catalog page from Christie’s). Christie’s New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 September 1998, lot 319. Estates of William R. Appleby (1915-2007) and Elinor Appleby (1920-2020), acquired from the above. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, GBE (1881-1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family. In the 1920s he spent much time in Shanghai and began collecting Chinese works of art, his vast collection of ivory carvings being of particularly high significance. His hotel in Shanghai, The Cathay, was a mainstay of Hollywood celebrities, and he counted among his personal friends Charlie Chaplin, Laurence Olivier, and Marlene Dietrich. William and Elinor Appleby were longtime donors to the Asian Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A copy of the original, stamped, and signed invoice, dated 16 September 1998 and stating a purchase price of USD 24,897 (today approximately USD 40,792 after inflation), accompanies this lot, along with copies of three old catalog pages: one for the present lot as offered by Christie’s on 16 September 1998, with a handwritten note, ‘From: Est. of Sir Victor Sassoon, B.T., G.B.E. and Lady Sassoon!’; and two for comparable Han-dynasty pottery pigs offered at auction. Condition: Overall very good condition and absolutely commensurate with age. Some repair and touchups as generally expected from Han dynasty excavations. Some of the black pigment and brown speckles with old touchups, some of the white priming underneath visible due to ongoing pigment flaking. Losses, fissures, and encrustations. Extensive wear to pigments. Drilled holes from sample-taking. Scientific analysis report: A thermoluminescence report issued by Oxford Authentication on 29 May 1998, based on sample no. C198m26, sets the firing date of both samples taken at 1500 – 2400 years ago and is consistent with the dating of this lot. A signed and stamped copy of the report, issued by Oxford Authentication, accompanies this lot. Weight: 23 kg Dimensions: Length 65 cm, Height 31 cm Figures of pigs are quite well known among Han dynasty mingqi. However, pigs of this exceptional size and verisimilitude are not, indicating this pregnant sow was placed in the tomb of a person of particularly high status. Literature comparison: A smaller version from the Jingguantang Collection was included in the exhibition, Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, November 1996 - January 1997, p. 82, no. 14. A pair of pregnant pottery pigs (each 44 cm long) were excavated from the attendant pits of the Yangling Mausoleum of the Han Emperor Jingdi and illustrated in line drawings in Wenwu 1994:6, p. 14, fig. 19.1. An excavated example of smaller size from tomb no. 2 at Hejiashan, Mianyang city is illustrated in Wenwu 1991:3, p. 11, fig. 8. Compare a related but smaller (46 cm long) painted pottery sow, dated to the Western Han dynasty, excavated from the East Side Pit of the Yangling Mausoleum in 2002, lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and exhibited in Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 200) between 3 April and 16 July 2017. Auction result comparison: Compare a related but much smaller (45.8 cm long) and later (dated to the Six Dynasties, 220-589 AD) painted pottery figure of a sow at Christie’s New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 15 September 2011, lot 1441, sold for USD 22,500. 漢代罕見黑彩灰陶孕母豬 中國,公元前202 年至公元 220年。逼真地塑造了四足着地的孕母豬,頭部朝前,大而軟的耳朵,細長的波浪形尾巴和下垂且圓鼓鼓的腹部,可見肚皮上的乳頭。整體覆蓋黑色顏料,白色底有棕色斑點。 來源:Victor Sassoon 爵士收藏 (根據佳士得隨附目錄頁上的手寫筆記);紐約佳士得Fine Chinese Ce

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 124
Auktion:
Datum:
15.10.2021
Auktionshaus:
Galerie Zacke
Mariahilferstr. 112 /1/10
1070 Wien
Österreich
office@zacke.at
+43 1 5320452
+43 1 532045220
Beschreibung:

China, 202 BC to 220 AD. Realistically modeled standing foursquare with head facing forward, with large floppy ears, thin wavy tail and low, full belly modeled with nipples, covered overall in black pigment with brown speckles over white priming. Provenance: Estate of Sir Victor Sassoon (according to a handwritten note on the accompanying catalog page from Christie’s). Christie’s New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 September 1998, lot 319. Estates of William R. Appleby (1915-2007) and Elinor Appleby (1920-2020), acquired from the above. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, GBE (1881-1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family. In the 1920s he spent much time in Shanghai and began collecting Chinese works of art, his vast collection of ivory carvings being of particularly high significance. His hotel in Shanghai, The Cathay, was a mainstay of Hollywood celebrities, and he counted among his personal friends Charlie Chaplin, Laurence Olivier, and Marlene Dietrich. William and Elinor Appleby were longtime donors to the Asian Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A copy of the original, stamped, and signed invoice, dated 16 September 1998 and stating a purchase price of USD 24,897 (today approximately USD 40,792 after inflation), accompanies this lot, along with copies of three old catalog pages: one for the present lot as offered by Christie’s on 16 September 1998, with a handwritten note, ‘From: Est. of Sir Victor Sassoon, B.T., G.B.E. and Lady Sassoon!’; and two for comparable Han-dynasty pottery pigs offered at auction. Condition: Overall very good condition and absolutely commensurate with age. Some repair and touchups as generally expected from Han dynasty excavations. Some of the black pigment and brown speckles with old touchups, some of the white priming underneath visible due to ongoing pigment flaking. Losses, fissures, and encrustations. Extensive wear to pigments. Drilled holes from sample-taking. Scientific analysis report: A thermoluminescence report issued by Oxford Authentication on 29 May 1998, based on sample no. C198m26, sets the firing date of both samples taken at 1500 – 2400 years ago and is consistent with the dating of this lot. A signed and stamped copy of the report, issued by Oxford Authentication, accompanies this lot. Weight: 23 kg Dimensions: Length 65 cm, Height 31 cm Figures of pigs are quite well known among Han dynasty mingqi. However, pigs of this exceptional size and verisimilitude are not, indicating this pregnant sow was placed in the tomb of a person of particularly high status. Literature comparison: A smaller version from the Jingguantang Collection was included in the exhibition, Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, November 1996 - January 1997, p. 82, no. 14. A pair of pregnant pottery pigs (each 44 cm long) were excavated from the attendant pits of the Yangling Mausoleum of the Han Emperor Jingdi and illustrated in line drawings in Wenwu 1994:6, p. 14, fig. 19.1. An excavated example of smaller size from tomb no. 2 at Hejiashan, Mianyang city is illustrated in Wenwu 1991:3, p. 11, fig. 8. Compare a related but smaller (46 cm long) painted pottery sow, dated to the Western Han dynasty, excavated from the East Side Pit of the Yangling Mausoleum in 2002, lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and exhibited in Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 200) between 3 April and 16 July 2017. Auction result comparison: Compare a related but much smaller (45.8 cm long) and later (dated to the Six Dynasties, 220-589 AD) painted pottery figure of a sow at Christie’s New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 15 September 2011, lot 1441, sold for USD 22,500. 漢代罕見黑彩灰陶孕母豬 中國,公元前202 年至公元 220年。逼真地塑造了四足着地的孕母豬,頭部朝前,大而軟的耳朵,細長的波浪形尾巴和下垂且圓鼓鼓的腹部,可見肚皮上的乳頭。整體覆蓋黑色顏料,白色底有棕色斑點。 來源:Victor Sassoon 爵士收藏 (根據佳士得隨附目錄頁上的手寫筆記);紐約佳士得Fine Chinese Ce

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 124
Auktion:
Datum:
15.10.2021
Auktionshaus:
Galerie Zacke
Mariahilferstr. 112 /1/10
1070 Wien
Österreich
office@zacke.at
+43 1 5320452
+43 1 532045220
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