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A NEAR PAIR OF PAINTED POTTERY MODELS OF Carefully fashioned with close attention to detail such as detailed
CAPARISONED HORSES harnesses embellished with conch shells and bells, and floating
Northern Wei Dynasty blankets that resembled flowing wings, the horse is a fine example of
Each finely modelled standing four-square, the head well proportioned the limited sculptural production of the Wei dynasty that has survived
with alert ears, a tasselled rope looped around the top of the curving to this date. It is possible that the horse may have been imported
neck and ornaments on the chest collar, the back covered with a long from the Central Asian region of Ferghana, whose horses were highly
cloth, the crupper on the rump hung with ornaments, with traces of favoured by the Chinese imperial Court and upper classes for their
red and grey pigment remaining. spirit and vitality.
40cm (15 3/4in) and 43.5cm (17 1/8in) long. (2).
Compare with a similar horse, Wei dynasty, illustrated in The Tsui
£8,000 - 12,000 Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, Neolithic to Liao, vol.1, Hong
CNY71,000 - 110,000 Kong, 1993, no.71; and another, which was sold at Christie’s New
York, 22 March 1999, lot 221.
北魏 陶胎彩繪馬俑一組兩件

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence
tests no. C109e41, dated 8 March 2009, and C110p82, dated
22 November 2010, are consistent with the dating of this lot.

Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（2009年3月8日，
編號C109e41；以及2010年11月22日，編號C110p82）顯示年代與
本拍品年代一致。

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