A set of twelve painted pottery zodiac figures, Tang dynasty | 唐 陶加彩生肖俑一套十二件

Sotheby's New York, 1st December 1992, lot 245.

紐約蘇富比1992年12月1日，編號245

It is rare to find a complete set of twelve zodiac animals. A set of similar zodiac figures of larger size, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. 2000.662.7a–l), is included in the Museum's exhibition Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023. 

The dating of the monkey figure is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. 666f6.

本拍品中猴俑經牛津熱釋光檢測編號666f6，結果與其斷代相符