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A CELADON JADE HORSE
YUAN/MING DYNASTY

The kneeling horse carved with head raised and looking forward, the mane and tail lightly incised, fitted with a halter, saddlecloth, saddle, and stirrups, the stone predominantly of celadon tone with brown areas
4 1/2in (11.5cm.) long, box
Exhibited
The Dayton Art Institute, 1989, no. 185

Lot Essay

This kneeling caparisonned horse belongs to a well-documented group that can be related to similar figures in other media. Watt in the exhibition of Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, Catalogue, illustrates another example, no. 66, and notes the similarity to a Yuan dynasty pottery horse and rider found in Inner Mongolia, illustrated in Neimenggu Zizhiqu Wenwugongzuodui, Neimengu Chutu Xuanji, p. 141, fig. 182. While Rawson illustrates another horse in Chinese Jades, no. 26:16 and notes the close relationship to a pair of tomb sculptures found at the tomb of the early Ming emperor Hongwu (1368-1398) at Xiaoling near Nanjing.

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