A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIAN DRUMMER

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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIAN DRUMMER
TANG DYNASTY

The rider wearing a straw-glazed robe and unglazed hood shown with body turned to the left and hands raised as if to beat the small drum hung from the saddle, seated astride an ochre-glazed horse with darker toned muzzle, the pale green glaze used to highlight the forelock, cropped mane and hogged tail combined with dark ochre and straw glazes to create a mottled effect on the saddle cloth, some restoration--14 1/4 in. (36.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a similar equestrian figure illustrated by R. L. Hobson in The Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. I, pl. XXIX, no. 212

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 566z79 is consistent with the dating of this lot