Lot 175. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A green-glazed jar (Hu), Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Height 45.7 cm. Lot Sold 2,540 USD (Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Flores Art & Antiques, New York, 1996.

Exhibited: Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, 2012, p. 17.

Lot 175. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A green-glazed pottery 'hill' jar and cover, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Height 22.7 cm. Lot Sold 2,540 USD (Estimate 800 - 1,200 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Flores Art & Antiques, New York, July 1998.

Exhibited: Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, 2012, p. 16.

Lot 180. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A large green-glazed pottery model of a guard tower, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Height 30.2 cm (4). Lot Sold 9,525 USD (Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Flores Art & Antiques, New York, 1997.

Lot 182. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A pair of painted pottery figures of kneeling ladies​​​​​​​, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Height of larger 36.8 cm, metal stands (4). Lot Sold 1,778 USD (Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1999.

Lot 177. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A 'Yue' green-glazed 'lion' waterpot, Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Length 12.5 cm. Lot Sold 6,096 USD (Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Flores Art & Antiques, New York, July 1998.

Lot 178. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A 'Yue' green-glazed toad-shaped water dropper, Eastern Jin dynasty (317-420). Width 7.6 cm. Lot Sold 2,794 USD (Estimate 4,000 - 6,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Flores Art & Antiques, New York, 15th January 1998.

Lot 181. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A molded pottery 'monster' mask, Six Dynasties (265-589). Height 28.3 cm. Lot Sold 8,255 USD (Estimate 10,000 - 15,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Collection of Ganna Walska (1887-1984).

Vallin Galleries, Wilton, 27th February 1998.

Lot 179. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. Four painted gray pottery figures of attendants, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535). Height of the tallest 25.3 cm. Lot Sold 3,810 USD (Estimate 600 - 800 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Christie's New York, 2nd December 1993, lot 220.

Lot 183. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A painted gray pottery figure of a fat lady, Tang dynasty (618-907). Height 48.2 cm. Lot Sold 7,620 USD (Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 26th March 1996, lot 143.

Exhibited: Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, 2012, illus. cover, p. 10.

Lot 185. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A molded sancai-glazed pottery 'twin-fish' flask, Tang dynasty​​​​​​​ (618-907). Height 18.2 cm. Lot Sold 17,780 USD (Estimate 10,000 - 15,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Christie's New York, 21st March 2002, lot 121.

Lot 186. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A sancai-glazed pottery 'fish' oil lamp, Tang-Liao dynasty (618-1234). Lenght 15 cm, metal stand (2). Lot Sold 27,940 USD (Estimate 12,000 - 15,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: The Sze Yuan Tang Collection.

Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 90.

Eskenazi, Ltd., London, 28th January 1998.

Lot 187. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A green-glazed 'duck' rhyton​​​​​​​, Tang dynasty​​​​​​​ (618-907). Width 12.1 cm, metal stand, box (3). Lot Sold 35,560 USD (Estimate 15,000 - 20,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Christie's New York, 21st September 2000, lot 274.

Lot 188. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. A sancai-glazed water vessel, Tang dynasty​​​​​​​ (618-907). Width 9.8 cm, metal stand, box (3). Lot Sold 15,240 USD (Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Collection of Albin Salton (1916-2001). 

Christie's New York, 20th September 2002, lot 269.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Lot 196. A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection. An inscribed rectangular painted 'Cizhou' 'figural' pillow, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Len9ht 44.9 cm. Lot Sold 31,750 USD (Estimate 30,000 - 50,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

with a three-character inscription Zhangjia zao (made by the Zhang family)

Provenance: Kaikodo, New York, 13th November 2001

Literature: Kaikodo Journal, XX, Autumn 2001, pp 259 and 372-374, pl. 86.

Note: Compare a related example with the same inscription, dated to the Song dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 154; and a Jin dynasty Cizhou pillow, also from the Zhang Family Workshop and decorated with a lobed cartouche enclosing a military scene, preserved in the British Museum, London (accession. no. 1936,1012.165).

Sotheby's. Chinese Art | New York, 18 March 2025