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PROPERTY FROM THE CHINHUATANG COLLECTION
2918
A GREEN AND OCHRE-GLAZED OX AND CART
GROUP
SUI DYNASTY (581-618)
Together with a pair of painted pottery figures, the ox standing
foursquare with head facing forward, is fitted with studded crupper
straps and hitched to a covered wagon resting on large spoked wheels.
The arched roof is well modelled, projecting at either end to protect
a doorway at the back and an enclosed front, set before a series of
moulded vertical slats. The painted pottery figures of foreign grooms,
wearing long, olive-glazed coats with rounded collars, are standing at
the side with heads turned and hands positioned and pierced to hold
reins. The cabin, the saddle strap and bridle are unglazed with traces of
red pigment.
18 √ in. (48 cm.) high
HK$3,000,000-4,000,000 US$390,000-510,000

PROVENANCE
The Dexinshuwu Collection, Taipei, 1991
The Chinhuatang Collection, Taipei
Ox carts became popular in the late Eastern Han period. A closely related
example dated to the Tang dynasty, from the collection of the Seattle Art
Museum, was included in Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works
from the Permanent Collection, Seattle, 1951, p. 61. Another Tang example,
similar to the present one and also with two standing figures, is in the
National Museum of History, Taipei with the inventory number 85-00139.
An earlier example, featuring a cart with an ox and two figures, dated to
the Six Dynasties period, is illustrated by Jessica Rawson in The British
Museum Book of Chinese Art, New York, 1992, p. 144, fig. 92.
The result of Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence test no. C100x78
(21 August 2000) is consistent with the dating of this lot.

隋 綠褐釉彩繪牛車胡人俑

牛四足直立，昂首前行，並套有鞍轡。車蓬呈圓拱形，前後伸出長簷上翹，
車廂前鏤空成欞格，廂後開門。牛車兩側各立一胡人俑，著綠色圓領窄袖長
袍，作拉車狀。露胎處仍留有紅彩，整套器物塑於陶踏板上。
來源
德馨書屋舊藏，台北，1991 年
金華堂珍藏
東漢末年開始流行牛車。西雅圖藝術博物館藏有一件唐代之近似例，收錄
於《Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent
Collection》，西雅圖，1951 年，頁 61。另一件藏於台北國立故宮博物院，
館藏編號 85-00139 的唐代牛車，車旁左右同樣立有陶俑一對。而更早的
一套六朝的牛車陶人俑，可見於 Jessica Rawson 的《The British Museum
Book of Chinese Art》，紐約，1992 年，頁 144，圖 92 號。
此器經牛津熱釋光測年法檢測（測試編號 C100x78；2000 年 8 月 21 日），
證實與本圖錄之定年符合。

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