A LARGE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A PRANCING HORSE

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A LARGE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A PRANCING HORSE
TANG DYNASTY

Modeled with right leg raised and head turned to the left, the mouth open and the ears pricked forward, with traces of dark red pigment on the grooved mane and cheeks, and traces of orange and red decoration on the saddle and pleated saddle cloth, the eyes detailed in black, restored--23 1/4 in. (59 cm.) long

Lot Essay

Compare the horses with similar knotted saddlecloths and trappings illustrated by Schloss, Ancient Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, vol. II, pl. 96; by Hobson and Heatherington, The Art of the Chinese Potter, pl. XIV, from the Schiller Collection, now in the City Art Gallery, Bristol; and in the Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol. I, pl. XXXII, no. 240, now in the Benaki Museum, and pl. XXXIII, no. 239, now in the British Museum. Compare also the straw-glazed example in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, pl. 11, no. 3