拍品 337
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A Painted Grey Pottery Figure of a Mongolian Pony
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A Painted Grey Pottery Figure of a Mongolian Pony

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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A Painted Grey Pottery Figure of a Mongolian Pony
Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)
The stocky, hollow-molded figure painted brick red and shown standing foursquare on knife-carved legs with tail arched, with red knobs protruding from the muzzle and front of the hogged mane, the black saddle with high bow and cantle set atop a white blanket and scroll- decorated mud guards
24in. (35.6cm.) long

拍品專文

Compare a horse of this type found in a Jin dynasty tomb excavated in 1955, in Zhenzhou, Henan province, illustrated in Kaogu tongxun 1957:1, pp. 37-41; another illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1955, pl. 106, painted with similar scroll decoration on the saddle; and in the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated by M. A. Pang, An Album of Chinese Art, Melbourne, Australia, 1983, pp. 70-1.