A STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY SOLDIER AND A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY 'HILL' JAR AND COVER The soldier Sui Dynasty; the 'hill' jar and cover Han Dynasty The straw-glazed pale pottery soldier wearing chest armor with one arm raised to his belly to hold a sword or banner; the green-glazed 'hill' jar and cover molded around the cylindrical body with figures hunting and mythical animals in a hilly landscape, all supported on three bear-form feet, the cover modeled as a mystical hill with further animals and hunters with bows and arrows, some damage. Soldier 14 1/2in (36.8cm) high 'Hill' Jar 10 1//4in high (26cm) (2). Footnotes: 隋 草灰釉兵士陶俑 漢 綠釉陶博山爐 Provenance of the soldier: Sotheby's New York, 3 December 1986, lot 109 Property from The Estate of Ralph and Irene Beacon 兵士陶俑來源： 紐約蘇富比，1986 年 12 月 3 日，拍品編號 109 Ralph and Irene Beacon 伉儷遺產 Ralph Beacon was an investment banker in Chicago. He began his collection in the 1940's and 50's amassing over 300 objects which are now housed at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. He was a close friend of Avery Brundage. A similar figure in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is illustrated by Mahler, The Westerners among the Figurines of the Tang Dynasty, pl. XXXVII, where it is distinguished as being of Altaic-Tocharian type; and by Fontain and Wu, Unearthing China's Past, no. 84, together with another figure of the same model excavated from a tomb at Dasikong Cun which appears to date from the early years of the Tang Dynasty. Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價。 This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing