PROVENANCE: Ezekiel Schloss Collection Sold Christie's, 21 March, 2000, New York, lot 267 Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature:Sieur Tzen, China House of Arts, Significant Aspects of Early Chinese Ceramic Arts,, 1982, p. 35 Janet Baker, Seeking Immortality, Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, Santa Ana, 1996, p. 36, pl. 21 Ezekiel Schloss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, Stamford, 1977, vol. I, p. 107, fig. 13. Exhibited :Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Seeking Immortality: Early Chinese Ceramics from The Schloss Collection, 20 September 1998 - 3 January 1999, no. 84. Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 6 October 1996 - 16 March 1997, no. 84. Hempstead, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Appeasing the Spirits, 14 February - 7 May 1993, no. 13. Binghamton, College Art Gallery, State University of New York, Appeasing the Spirits, 9 October - 14 November 1993, no. 13.