Lot Essay
The result of the thermoluminescence test, Oxford 666r54, is consistent with the dating of the lot.
A very similar horse was discovered in the tomb of Li Siben, who died in 675, but whose tomb was not completed until 709. See Kaogu, 1986, no.5, p.439, fig.16 and an example with a saddle is illustrated by P.L. Hobson in The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol.I, London, 1925, pl. XXXII, no.234.
A very similar horse was discovered in the tomb of Li Siben, who died in 675, but whose tomb was not completed until 709. See Kaogu, 1986, no.5, p.439, fig.16 and an example with a saddle is illustrated by P.L. Hobson in The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol.I, London, 1925, pl. XXXII, no.234.