CIRCA 1720-30

For a nearly identical example with the man wearing black trousers, see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection, London, 1996, vol.II, p. 474-475, nr. 286. For other groups with horses and figures, see Ausstellung Chinesischer Künst, Gesellshaft für Ostasiatische Künst und Preussische Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1929, cat. nos. 949, 1027, 1029, from the Glogowski and Goldschmidt collections. A figure group of this type but mounted with a lacquer bowl is illustrated in D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in Europäischen Fassungen, Brunswick, 1980, pl. 358. Also compare anon. sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 3 May 2005, lot 249.