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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION
1274
A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIENNE
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The slender female rider is depicted wearing a green scarf and a long dress gathered below
the bodice, her hair is drawn up into a topknot, and she is seated on an amber-glazed horse
with splash-glazed saddle blanket.
16 in. (40.7 cm.) high
$25,000-35,000

PROVENANCE
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York, before 1992.
EXHIBITED
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the
Scheinman Collection, 9 September to 8 November 1992.
LITERATURE
F. Klapthor, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, Baltimore, 1992,
p. 65, no. 37.
For a discussion on the depiction of women on horseback, see Virginia Bower, ‘Two Masterworks of
Tang Ceramic Sculpture’, Orientations, June, 1993, pp. 75-77, where various examples in both painted
pottery and sancai glaze are illustrated. The author notes that fgures of women on horseback became
common during the sixth century, and were increasingly numerous in tombs during the Sui and Tang
periods, as more women took up riding. By the late 720s and 730s, however, fgures of riders of either
sex were declining, although literary evidence suggests that riding remained a common activity for both
men and women.
唐 三彩騎馬女俑騎馬女俑

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