A LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A MONGOLIAN PONY

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A LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY FIGURE OF A MONGOLIAN PONY
HAN DYNASTY

The stocky pony standing foursquare on short, knife-pared legs, with a knobbed horn extending from the front of the hogged mane between the forward-pricked ears, the long tail arched downward, the deep saddle with high pommel and cantle set atop a short blanket and squared mud guards, extensive white slip and some reddish pigment remaining, some chips, leg restored--18 3/4in. (47.6cm.) high

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Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 21

拍品專文

Compare the similar figure excavated from a tomb in Zhenzhou, Henan province, illustrated in Kaogu tongxun, 1957, No. 1, p. XIV:4, another illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, 1955, vol. 8, pl. 106; and a smaller example in the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated in An Album of Chinese Art, Melbourne, Australia, 1983, pp. 70 and 71