A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY MODEL OF A HORSE AND GROOM

TANG DYNASTY

细节

A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY MODEL OF A HORSE AND GROOM
Tang Dynasty
The horse shown standing foursquare on a slab base, with head turned slightly to the right, the head finely modeled with ears pricked and mouth open in a neigh, the neck grooved for a mane and the rump with a hole for a tail, bearing on its back a sancai-glazed blanket with a border of partially impressed florettes, beneath a green-glazed saddle, all reserved against the deep amber glaze of the body; together with a groom standing with legs slightly apart, his fists clenched and right arm raised in a combative posture, dressed in a tunic with cross-over lapels, the left sleeve rolled up, his hair pulled up in a topknot above the face set in a fiercesome expression
Horse 19in. (50.2cm.) high; groom 17in. (45.1cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

Compare a similar grouping of a sancai-glazed horse and groom illustrated by Akiyama, et al., in Arts of China, Neolithic Cultures to the T'ang Dynasty, Recent Discoveries, Tokyo, 1968, p. 155

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 866b78 is consistent with the dating of this lot