Lot 154
154
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A HORSE
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A HORSE

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

Details
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A HORSE
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Shown standing foursquare and looking directly forward with mouth open, the details of the head simply cast and chiseled with flat cheeks and the hollow-cast body softly rounded, with malachite and azurite encrustation
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Important Chinese Works of Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections; Christie's, New York, 1 December 1994, lot 46.
Chen Chi Collection, Tokyo.

Lot Essay

Compare two other small bronze horses of similar type but slightly larger size in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City illustrated in the Handbook, 1959, p. 174 (top); and another from the collection of A. Hellstrom, Sweden, included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, Catalogue, no. 129. See, also, the smaller bronze horse of this type illustrated in Kandai no bijitsu, Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1974, p. 38, no. 2-181.

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