Chinese Art

Chinese Art

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 110. A rare gilt-bronze 'ram' zodiac figure, Tang dynasty.

Property from Carnegie Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund

A rare gilt-bronze 'ram' zodiac figure, Tang dynasty

Auction Closed

March 19, 05:41 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

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Description

Height 7⅛ in., 18.2 cm

Collection of George Hathaway Taber (1859-1940), prior to 1935, and thence by descent.

Gifted to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1955 (accession no. 55.47.14).

Far Eastern Art, a Memorial Exhibition from the Collection of George H. Taber, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1958.

See a related gilt-bronze 'tiger' zodiac figure from the collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, and later donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sold in these rooms, 10th September 2019, lot 64.

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