A LARGE SANCAI AND CREAM-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE

TANG DYNASTY

细节

A LARGE SANCAI AND CREAM-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE
Tang Dynasty
Powerfully modeled, standing foursquare on a rectangular base, the mouth open, ears pricked and the head held high, the muscular body glazed cream with an unglazed saddle placed on the sancai-glazed saddle cloth, the brown and green-striped harness and straps across the rump and chest suspending crisply molded green-glazed medallions, the tail docked and neatly bound; together with an amber and green-glazed pottery figure of a groom, standing on a small slab base, with both arms raised and hands clenched into fists, wearing a tunic belted at the waist and open at the chest, the unglazed head modeled with an expressive face above a heavy beard
Horse 29in. (74.2 cm.) high; groom 24in. (61cm.) high, wood stand for horse (2)

拍品专文

Compare the smaller cream-glazed horse in the Victoria & Albert Museum, decorated with similar medallions in a brown glaze, but with a saddle cloth on its back, in addition to the saddle and saddle blanket, illustrated by Margaret Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 37, col. pl. E

Compare a similar example of a sancai and cream-glazed figure of a horse with groom illustrated in Akiyama, et al., Arts of China, Neolithic Cultures to the T'ang Dynasty, Recent Discoveries, Tokyo, 1968, p. 155, nos. 255 and 156 and another illustrated by Li Zhiyan in The Art of Glazed Pottery of China, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 195