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CAVALIER EN TERRE CUITE EMAILLEE SANCAI
CHINE, DYNASTIE TANG (618-907)
Le cheval est représenté debout sur une base quadrangulaire, sa tête
tournée sur le côté, son pelage émaillé ocre. Il est harnaché, un tapis
de selle orné d’élégantes taches de couleur sur le dos. Le cavalier,
bien campé sur sa selle, est vêtu d’une tunique et d’un pantalon
ample. Il est chaussé de bottes et porte une coife souple. Sa main
droite, levée vers son visage, devait tenir un instrument de musique à
l’origine. Son visage expressif est rehaussé de détails peints.
Hauteur: 40,5 cm. (16 in.)
€40,000-60,000 $47,000-70,000
£36,000-53,000
PROVENANCE
Belgian private collection, acquired with Spink & Son, Ltd., London,
October 1984.
A SANCAI -GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIAN
CHINA, TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
唐 三彩釉陶騎士俑
來源：比利時私人珍藏，於1984年10月購自倫敦古董商 Spink &
Son, Ltd.
此拍品經牛津鑒定公司熱釋光年法測試，測試編號366H71，證實
與本圖錄之定代符合

This handsome equestrian fgure is probably related to the group
of equestrian fgures found in Luoyang, Henan province, before 1943.
Other fgures from this group include two each in the Freer Gallery,
the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Musée Guimet. Compare the
group of equestrian musicians and other fgures found in Luoyang
and now in the Henan Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo
taoci, vol. 7, Shanghai/Tokyo, 1983, pls. 88 and 89.
See, also, the two related equestrian fgures sold by Christie’s New
York: one from the Ernest C. and Katherine Arbuckle Collection, 4
June 1987, lot 195, and another, 19 September 2007, lot 235. These
two examples share with the present lot a high-fred clay body,
lustrous and well-preserved glazes, and fnely painted facial features
which remain relatively intact.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.
366h71 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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