A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE

EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE
Early Western Han Dynasty
Well modeled standing foursquare with head facing forward and ears alertly pricked, pierced behind the open mouth for the attachment of a halter, painted in white, red and pale green with decorative elements, including 'pendent' tassles on the neck and rump and a striped saddle blanket on the back, all reserved against the brick-red pigment used allover the body, with a small aperture in the belly and a hole in the rump for the insertion of the separate, docked tail
23in. (59.7cm.) high

拍品專文

This horse is of early Western Han type like those unearthed at Yangjiawan, near Xianyang, Shaanxi province. Burials containing large numbers of mounted cavalrymen and foot soldiers were found in the vicinity of the tombs of the first Han emperor, Gaozu, and the emperor Jingdi at Yangjiawan. See Wenwu, 1966:3, pl. 1-5, and Wenwu, 1977:10, p. 10 ff. Compare, also, the example sold in these rooms, 3 June 1988, lot 126.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c72 is consistent with the dating of this lot