Lot 897. A small white-glazed stoneware figure of a rabbit, Tang dynasty (AD 618-907); 3 7/8 in. (9.6 cm.) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 400,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2020.

Shown seated, covered with a transparent glaze over a white slip, the eyes picked out in brown glaze.

Provenance: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, deaccession no. 56-675.
Alice Boney Chinese Art, New York, 9 March 1956.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Exhibited: Los Angeles County Museum, The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, January 8-February 17, 1957, no. 273.

Note: A similar blue-glazed figure, dated first half of the eighth century, in the Tokyo National Museum, is illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York 1984, p. 214, pl. 249.

Christie's. Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II, New York, 24 September 2020