EASTERN WEI DYNASTY (534-550)

Compare a similar caparisoned ox dated to the Northern Wei dynasty which is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 26, pl. 7; and another example accompanied with a cart dated to the Tang dynasty is included in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 347.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, conducted by Oxford Authentication Ltd, sample No. C298j56, 22 December 1998.