A RARE PAIR OF LAVENDER-PAINTED POTTERY ATTENDANTS AND A PAIR OF PAINTED POTTERY HORSES

HAN DYNASTY

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A RARE PAIR OF LAVENDER-PAINTED POTTERY ATTENDANTS AND A PAIR OF PAINTED POTTERY HORSES
Han Dynasty
The attendants wearing mauve robes spreading at the hem to reveal the toes, the faces with crisp black-pigmented features, each horse modeled with head raised in a torqued position and mouth open, the brown bodies overpainted with harness, decorative trappings and abstract patterns
Attendants 12 in. (30 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The slightly turned position of these horses distinguish them from others of the same date, which are commonly modeled in a more stagnant, though noble, posture. Compare a similarly painted horse of this type and size illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), Tokyo, 1955, vol.8, no. 107.

The results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test nos. C198m3 and C198m4 are consistent with the dating of this lot