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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
932
A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The rider wears a green-glazed coat and amber
hood and is seated with both hands raised and
curled as if grasping implements to play the round
circular drum. The horse stands foursquare on a
rectangular base with head turned slightly to the
left and is glazed in amber and straw.
16º in. (41.3 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
William E. Little, Sr. (1910-1991) Collection, New
York and Connecticut.

EXHIBITED:
Hanover, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
College, Ming-Ch'i Figures from the William E.
Little Collection, 2 September-26 November 1989.
LITERATURE:
C. H. Lachman, Ming-Ch'i Figures from the William
E. Little Collection, 1989, Hanover, cover and no. 41.
A similar hooded equestrian figure is illustrated in
Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Indianapolis Museum of
Art, 1973, no. 10, p. 18, and a comparable hooded
drummer is illustrated in Selections of Chinese
Art from Private Collections, China Institute, New
York, 18 October 1984 - 4 January 1987, p. 87.

紐約私人珍藏
唐 三彩騎馬俑
展覽:
達特茅斯學院Hood美術館, 新罕布夏州漢諾瓦：
VARIOUS PROPERTIES 「Ming-Ch'i Figures from the William E. Little
Collection 」, 1989年9月2日-11月26日
ⱷ931 出版:
A RARE GLAZED STONEWARE DEEP BOWL 隋/唐 透明釉盌 C. H. Lachman,《Ming-Ch'i Figures from the
SUI-TANG DYNASTY (AD 581-907) 來源: William E. Little Collection》, 1989年, 漢諾瓦, 封
The vessel is potted with deep rounded sides and a pair of handle fittings that 1959年前於日本 面及編號41
rise from the slightly inverted mouth rim. It is covered overall with a white 展覽:
slip and a transparent glaze tinged olive which has pooled and crackled in an
irregular line beneath the rim, with the base left unglazed to reveal the white 京都國立博物館：「隋唐之美術」, 1959年10月11日-11月8日
body. 日本陶磁協会, 1966年
7Ω in. (19 cm.) wide, lacquer cover, Japanese wood box with inscription by 出版:
Japanese tea ceremony practitioner, Koga Kenzo (1931-1999), who used the 京都國立博物館：《隋唐之美術》, 1959年, 京都, 編號206
pseudonym, Chikuse
$15,000-24,000

PROVENANCE:
In Japan by 1959.
EXHIBITED:
Kyoto National Museum, Zui Tou no bijutsu (Fine Art of Sui and Tang), 11
October-8 November 1959.
Japan Ceramics Society (Nihon Toji Kyokai), 1966.
LITERATURE:
Kyoto National Museum, Zui Tou no bijutsu (Fine Art of Sui and Tang), 1959,
Kyoto, no. 206.

(another view with box)

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