Five Chinese Glazed Roof Tiles

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Ming style or period, includes five green and golden yellow glazed roof tiles shaped as a dog, tiger, mythical beast, qilin, and a sage riding a rooster, raised on arched shaped bases to fit on a roof.

Tallest 10 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Tiger tile has losses to both ears; qilin tile with breaks and repairs to feet; chicken and figure tile with losses to front of tile base where it arches.