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The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 127s35 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
PROPERTY OF NORMAN LEE, CBE, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA
A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIAN
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIAN
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The rider wearing an amber coat with green lapels shown with hands positioned to hold reins, seated astride a horse standing foursquare on a rectangular base with ears pricked forward, with amber-streaked straw-glazed coat and amber hogged mane and cropped tail
17½ in. (45.5 cm.) high
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The rider wearing an amber coat with green lapels shown with hands positioned to hold reins, seated astride a horse standing foursquare on a rectangular base with ears pricked forward, with amber-streaked straw-glazed coat and amber hogged mane and cropped tail
17½ in. (45.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Major H.F. Ward Collection.
E.T. Chow Collection, Geneva.
J.M.A.J. Dawson Collection, Guernsey.
Eskenazi Limited, London, 19 October 1983.
E.T. Chow Collection, Geneva.
J.M.A.J. Dawson Collection, Guernsey.
Eskenazi Limited, London, 19 October 1983.
Exhibited
Eskenazi, March 1972, no. 19.
Eskenazi, Chinese Works of Art From the Collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson, December 1980, no. 24.
Eskenazi, Chinese Works of Art From the Collection of J.M.A.J. Dawson, December 1980, no. 24.
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