A PAIR OF PAINTED GRAY POTTERY EQUESTRIAN FIGURES

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

细节

A PAIR OF PAINTED GRAY POTTERY EQUESTRIAN FIGURES
Western Han Dynasty
Each rider dressed in a soldier's garb of leather helmet and black armor worn over a red tunic with red-decorated black border, the flared skirt flared out in back atop the saddle blanket, one blanket with traces of unusual blue pigment, with hands positioned and pierced to hold reins, each looking small seated astride his stocky horse with pricked ears, cropped mane, docked tail and trappings and details painted in black and red atop the remaining white slip, one horse with an impressed mark on its chest, wu shi si (fifty-four), also with traces of lavender and pale green pigment
11.1/8in. (28.2cm.) long (2)

拍品专文

Compare the group of stylistically similar, but larger figures, dated to the early Western Han, unearthed in 1965 at Yangjiawan, near Xianyang, Shaanxi province. Burials containing large numbers of mounted calvarymen and foot soldiers were found in the vicinity of the tombs of the first Han emperor, Gaozu, and the emperor Jingdi at Yangjiawan. See Wenwu 1966:3, pl. 1-4 and Wenwu 1977:10, pl. 17. See, also, The Quest for Eternity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987, Catalogue, p. 105, fig. 15