Provenance: Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York, before 1992.

Literature: F. Klapthor, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, Baltimore, 1992, p. 53, no. 29.

Exhibited: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, 9 September to 8 November 1992.

Note: This figure is stylistically similar to a group of figures found in Shaanxi province and dated to the Western Wei dynasty, some of which were included in the exhibition, The Quest for Eternity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 80 and 125, nos. 53-54.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 13 - 14 September