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PROPERTY FROM THE JANE AND LEOPOLD
SWERGOLD COLLECTION
2294
A PAINTED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF A
FEMALE DANCER
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
The well-modeled fgure wears long belted
robes with faring scalloped sleeves, and is
depicted in mid-step in an animated pose
with her right arm raised and her left hand
shown grasping a corner of her layered skirt
to reveal a ruffed hem.
10æ in. (27.3 cm.) high, stand
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE:
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1996.
EXHIBITED:
Fairfeld Connecticut, Ballarmine Museum
of Art, Fairfeld University, Immortality of the
Spirit, 12 March-7 June 2012.
The result of Oxford Authentication
thermoluminescence test no. 866a89 is
consistent with the dating of this lot.
漢 彩繪紅陶女舞者俑
2294
PROPERTY FROM THE JANE AND LEOPOLD SWERGOLD COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE
2295 COLLECTION
A PAINTED RED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN OX AND CART
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) 2296
A PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A
The ox, with a pronounced hump and dewlap, stands foursqaure with head facing forward PRANCING HORSE
and modeled with a harness terminating in leaf appliquPs at the neck. The cart is modeled with TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
arched roof projecting at either end to protect a doorway in the back and an enclosure in front
set before a series of molded vertical slats. The sides are pierced with three holes centering The spirited horse is shown standing on a
painted decoration; with a pair of separate, spoked wheels. trapezoidal base with right foreleg raised, and
Ox 8Ωin. (21.6cm.) long, cart 9æin. (24.8cm.) long, wood stand is caparisoned in a tassel-hung chest strap, a
crupper and a cloth-tied saddle with stirrups
$8,000-12,000 atop a saddle blanket. There are traces of
orangey-red and dark blue pigments.
PROVENANCE: 17æ in. (45 cm.) high
The Hardy Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from the Sze Yuan Tang $6,000-8,000
Collection; Christie’s New York, 21 September 1995, lot 76.
PROVENANCE:
EXHIBITED:
Acquired in New York, 1989.
Fairfeld Connecticut, Ballarmine Museum of Art, Fairfeld University, Immortality of the Spirit,
12 March-7 June 2012. 唐 彩繪陶提腿馬
For an earlier bronze prototype, featuring a cart with a similar sloping, divided roof, dating to the
Northern Dynasties, see Zhongguo wenwu jinghua (Gems of China’s Cultural Relics), Beijing, 1993,
no. 98. See, also, a dark brown-glazed cart of similar form shown with an ox and two fgures, dated
to the Six dynasties period, illustrated by J. Rawson, The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, New
York, 1992, p. 144, fg. 92.
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