A PAIR OF MAGNIFICENT MASSIVE GLAZED BUFF POTTERY FIGURES OF HORSES

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A PAIR OF MAGNIFICENT MASSIVE GLAZED BUFF POTTERY FIGURES OF HORSES
TANG DYNASTY

One covered in a streaked amber glaze with cream-glazed blaze, the other with head more sharply turned and covered in a cream-colored glaze with amber and green streaks on the left front shoulder and left flank, the blaze and interior of the ears also glazed amber, each with neck grooved for a mane and each with well-modeled head scored under the glaze with short marks indicating hairs on the muzzle and wrinkled skin above the nostrils, restored--27 and 26½in. (68.6 and 67.3cm.) high (2)

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拍品专文

For two slightly smaller horses in similar pose, but sancai-glazed, see Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics 1, 1988, nos. 202 and 203, and two others, one brown-glazed, one green and white-glazed, illustrated by Mario Prodan, The Art of the Tang Potter, 1961, pl. 72

For a similar cream-glazed horse with brown and green splashes from the John D. Rockefeller III Collection, see Exhibition of Asian Art, New York, 1970, Catalogue no. 35; and another with green glaze excavated in Xianyang, Shaanxi province, illustrated in China in Venice, 1986, Catalogue no. 94

An example with brown glaze was exhibited by Eskenazi Ltd., Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, March, 1972, Catalogue no. 25