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A LARGE TREACLE-GLAZED POTTERY A RICHLY CAPARISONED PAINTED GREY Provenance: Berwald Oriental Art, 22
MODEL OF A HORSE POTTERY HORSE November 1999 (invoice) and label.
Western Jin Dynasty Northern Wei Dynasty
Standing four-square on a rectangular base, Standing four square on a rectangular base, Published: Eternal Images, Chinese Ceramic
the mane combed over to one side of the with long arched neck and slender head held Sculpture from the Han to Tang Dynasties,
neck and plaited into a quiff extending from elegantly downwards, an arched forelock Berwald Oriental Art, catalogue no. 5.
the forehead, with applied circular bosses to of hair between the pricked ears, the body
the sides of the head, supporting a saddle adorned with rich ceremonial trappings The result of Oxford thermoluminescence
with large mud flaps and applied stirrups including a folded and twisted fringed saddle test no. C199r22 (4 May 1999) is
suspended from each side. blanket, a strap supporting seven prominent consistent with the dating of this lot.
47cm. (18.1/2in) high. floral decorated tassels around the chest,
and leaf-form pendant tassels to the rump, a For a painted pottery horse of similar form
£2,500 - 4,000 decorative undulating cover to the mane with from the tomb of Madame Gao, dated to 524,
CNY22,000 - 35,000 a series of punched holes, the horse painted Quyang, Heibei, see ‘Hebeisheng qutu wenwu
HK$24,000 - 39,000 in a reddish brown tone, with white socks, the xuannji’, Beijing, 1980, p.300, No. 172.
leather trappings green, the saddle and mane Another horse with similar trappings from
Provenance: Berwald Oriental Art, 4 July white and the blanket orange. the tomb of Yuan Shao and his wife (d.528)
2003 (invoice). 31cm (12.1/4in) high. in Luoyang, Henan, is illustrated in ‘Kaogu’,
1973, Pl.IX: 1.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 26,000
HK$19,000 - 29,000

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