A painted pottery figure of a prancing horse

TANG DYNASTY

细节

A painted pottery figure of a prancing horse
Tang Dynasty
Modelled in a spirited pose with right leg raised, the head inclined taughtly towards the neck, moulded with wavy manes below a groove for further mane, the rump with hole for a tail, covered with a black saddle-cloth above the orange saddle, the trappings in black
54.5 cm. high, perspex stand

拍品专文

A similar horse from the Schloss collection is illustrated in Janet Baker, Catalogue for the exhibition Seeking Immortality, the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California, 6 October-16 March 1997, p.40, no.127.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the Oxford Authentication Ltd thermoluminescence test no. C199x36