A Chinese small biscuit glazed 'tree shrew' water dropper, Qing Dynasty, probably Kangxi, Rothschild label no. 438, 8.5cm longProvenance: Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, 1887-1961, the collection principally formed by him in the 1920s and 1930s Mrs Renée Robeson, (née de Rothschild), 1927-2015, believed gifted to her by Anthony de Rothschild in the late 1930s or 1940sBy family decent and sold by order of a member of the de Rothschild FamilyCompare with a similar example in William R Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, p. 34 and another at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and a white glazed pair of tree shrews at Ascott House, Buckinghamshire, illustrated in The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Regina Krahl, 1996, p.410, no. 233清 三彩松鼠型水呈拍品来源：罗斯柴尔德家族Anthony Gustav de Rothschild（1887-1961）私人收藏，收藏于上世纪20至30年代之间，后由家族继承品相报告: one ear chippedcollection label inside vessel