Lot Essay
Compare a very similar horse, illustrated by Bluett, The Riesco Collection of Old Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, fig. 4; and another included in the sale of the inventory of Yamanaka & Company Inc., New York, 1943, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 534. Compare, also, an example with a green harness and slightly different trappings, sold in these rooms, June 2, 1989, lot 147
The molded leaf-shaped trappings on this horse are similar to a bronze example illustrated by W.P. Yetts in The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol. II, London, 1930, pl. LX, no. B257. See, also, the group of gilt-bronze harness pendants unearthed from the tomb of Princess Yongtai, who was buried in 706 A.D. in Liangshan, Qianxian, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Mino and Robinson in Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Catalogue, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, p. 174, fig. E
The molded leaf-shaped trappings on this horse are similar to a bronze example illustrated by W.P. Yetts in The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol. II, London, 1930, pl. LX, no. B257. See, also, the group of gilt-bronze harness pendants unearthed from the tomb of Princess Yongtai, who was buried in 706 A.D. in Liangshan, Qianxian, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Mino and Robinson in Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Catalogue, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, p. 174, fig. E