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899 where the authors suggest that the inspiration for this horse is the
“Black Jade Piebald Horse” given by the Tang dynasty General
A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT FIGURE OF A HORSE Tang Maozhong as tribute to Emperor Xianzong.

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) A pair of nearly identical horses, but with yellow-glazed tails and
manes, on green leaf-form bases, is in The Copeland Collection,
The horse is shown recumbent on a green-glazed leaf-form base, and is illustrated in W. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and
with head turned to the side, the long segmented mane and forelock Japanese Ceramic Figures, 1991, pp. 64-5, no. 20. Another pair, from
falling between the pricked ears, and with legs bent as if about to The Hodroff Collection, Part III, was sold at Christie’s New York,
stand. There is a circular opening in its back. 21 January 2009, lot 151.
5æ in. (14.6 cm.) wide, wood stand
清康熙 素三彩臥馬
$20,000-30,000
來源
PROVENANCE R. Thornton Wilson 珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1943年。
R. Thornton Wilson Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1943.

A nearly identical biscuit spotted horse in the James E. Sowell
Collection is illustrated by M. Cohen and W. Motley in Mandarin
and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Vol I:
The James E. Sowell Collection, Surrey, 2008, pp. 188-89, no. 12.8,

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