A PAINTED AND SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIENNE

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A PAINTED AND SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIENNE
TANG DYNASTY

The slim rider dressed in a straw-glazed shawl and amber-glazed flowing robes with long sleeves, her left arm bent, the hand resting on the front of the saddle as if to grasp reins, as she sits astride the steed standing foursquare on a thin rectangular base, its arched neck with well-combed mane, the head very slightly turned to the left, the body covered in a pale straw glaze splashed in amber on the sides of the head, mane and rump, and green on a small section of the mane and saddle cloth, extensive traces of red, pink and black pigment finely depicting the haughty expression on the rider's face below her black hairdo surmounted by a chignon, black lines also representing the horse's fittings, minor repair--14¾in. (37.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

This well-detailed figure would have been in a group of equestrian figures such as that illustrated in the Idemitsu Museum, 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Japan, 1981, p. 163, no. 1191

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766a62 is consistent with the dating of this lot