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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
A STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE EQUESTRIENNE
SUI DYNASTY (AD 581-618)
Details
A STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A FEMALE EQUESTRIENNE
SUI DYNASTY (AD 581-618)
The rider is shown wearing a tight-fitting cowl and a high-waisted dress and seated astride a horse standing foursquare on a rectangular plinth, its head lowered and the mane swept to one side, all under a thin pale green glaze.
11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) high
SUI DYNASTY (AD 581-618)
The rider is shown wearing a tight-fitting cowl and a high-waisted dress and seated astride a horse standing foursquare on a rectangular plinth, its head lowered and the mane swept to one side, all under a thin pale green glaze.
11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) high
Provenance
Desmond Gure, 10 January 1968, lot 12.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler, and thence by descent within the family.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler, and thence by descent within the family.
Exhibited
London, Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, 1955, no. 54.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M Sackler Collections, 9 July-31 October 1987.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M Sackler Collections, 9 July-31 October 1987.