A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A MONGOLIAN PONY

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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A MONGOLIAN PONY
JIN DYNASTY

The stocky pony painted brick red and shown standing foursquare with tail arched, the head with red-painted knobs protruding from the muzzle and from the front of the hogged mane, with a black-painted saddle set atop a white saddle blanket and rectangular mud guards painted in red and black with hooked scroll decoration
14in. (35.6cm.) long

Lot Essay

Compare a horse of this type found in a Jin dynasty tomb excavated in 1955, Zhenzhou, Henan province, illustrated in Kaogu tongxun 1957:1, pp. 37-41., pl.14; another illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1955, pl. 106, painted with similar scroll decoration on the saddle; and another in the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated by Mae Anna Pang in An Album of Chinese Art, Melbourne, Australia, 1983, pp. 70 and 71

A similar horse, from The Aurelius Parenti Collection, was sold in these rooms, June 3, 1988, lot 184; and another of larger proportions, from the Scheinman Collection, sold March 23, 1995, lot 22