Lot 313. A sancai-glazed 'duck' waterpot, Tang dynasty (618-907); 10.3 cm. Lot Sold 50,800 HKD (Estimate 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Provenance: Bonhams London, 15th May 2014, lot 3.
A Hong Kong private collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd July 2021, lot 5002 (88,200 HKD). 

Lot 313. A small sancai dish, Tang dynasty (618-907); 13 cm. Lot Sold 50,800 HKD (Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Provenance: A Hong Kong private collection, acquired in Japan in the 1990s.

Lot 313. A rare blue and green-glazed zodiac figure of a rooster, Tang dynasty (618-907); 26.5 cm. Lot Sold 82,550 HKD (Estimate 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19th September 2002, lot 40.
Collection of Jay I. Kislak (1922-2018), Miami.

Note: It is very rare to find Tang pottery zodiac figures with coloured glazes, particularly with a blue glaze; see a smaller figure of a rat, with a blue-glazed head and chestnut-coloured robe, sold in our New York rooms, 6th November 1981, lot 142.

Compare four sancai zodiac kneeling figures, excavated at Situmiaozhen near Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, illustrated in Kaogu, Beijing, 1985, no. 9, pl. VI, with the rooster figure shown in fig. 2. See also a complete set of blue and amber-glazed zodiac figures in the collection of The Ten-Views of Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection, recently sold in Poly Hong Kong, 10th October 2022, lot 3230.

The present figure was previously in the collection of Mr Jay I. Kislak, an American real estate magnate, philanthropist and art collector with diverse interests ranging from books and manuscripts, impressionist, contemporary art to Tang sancai wares.

Lot 330. A white-glazed ewer, Tang dynasty (618-907); h. 20.7 cm. Lot Sold 50,800 HKD (Estimate 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Lot 331. A white-glazed cup, Tang dynasty (618-907); h. 7.2 cm. Lot Sold 53,340 HKD (Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Sotheby's. Monochrome, Hong Kong, 1 june 2023