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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF FREDERICK A. AND SHARON L. KLINGENSTEIN
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AN IMPORTANT MASSIVE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE
OF A FEREGHAN HORSE
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
PROVENANCE
The superbly modeled horse is shown standing foursquare on a rectangular Mr. C. Winslow-Taylor Collection, by 1947.
base, its head turned slightly to one side, and its mouth slightly open. The body The property of a lady; Sotheby’s London, 11 December 1984, lot 113.
is covered with a rich amber glaze, the wavy mane and forelock picked out in A & J Speelman Ltd., London, 1986.
cream, and the saddle is splash-glazed on top of the cream saddle blanked
EXHIBITED
edged in leaf green. The elaborate trappings are hung with ‘apricot leaf’
London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramic
medallions on the rump, and cream-colored tassels on the chest.
Figures, 8 April-21 June 1947.
30º in. (76.8 cm.) high On loan: London, Victoria and Albert Museum.
$400,000-600,000 LITERATURE
The Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Catalogue of The Exhibition of Chinese
唐 三彩馬 Ceramic Figures’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, vol. 22,
1946-47, no. 61.
Margaret Medley, T’ang Pottery & Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 41, pl. 30. (detail)

(another view)
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