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Lot 121
A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY OF EQUESTRIAN WARRIOR
Northern Qi dynasty
20 March 2023, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$4,000 - US$8,000
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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY OF EQUESTRIAN WARRIOR
Northern Qi dynasty
Wearing heavy armor and a close-fitted helmet, his expression fierce and determined, looking slightly to the left with both arms relaxed, his hands in fists as if holding the rein, the horse standing foursquare on a rectangular base wearing long protective blanket and a fitted face shield, a small pierced hole at the rump for attaching an ornament, the freely painted black lines over red-and-white stripes on the armor and blanket suggesting scales of leather, with few remains of earth encrustation from burial.
8 3/4in (22.5cm) high
Wearing heavy armor and a close-fitted helmet, his expression fierce and determined, looking slightly to the left with both arms relaxed, his hands in fists as if holding the rein, the horse standing foursquare on a rectangular base wearing long protective blanket and a fitted face shield, a small pierced hole at the rump for attaching an ornament, the freely painted black lines over red-and-white stripes on the armor and blanket suggesting scales of leather, with few remains of earth encrustation from burial.
8 3/4in (22.5cm) high
Footnotes
北齊 灰陶彩繪武裝騎士俑
Provenance:
Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, June 16 2002
來源：
阿姆斯特丹Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art，2002年6月16日
A pair of painted gray pottery equestrian warriors of very similar modeling and painting style is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (I), London, 2006, p. 165, no. 1171, described as Northern Qi dynasty, from Shanxi region. The author also cited a similar excavated example from the tomb of He Bachang (d. 553) in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, illustrated in Wenwu, 2003, No. 3, p. 14, color pl. 4 with line drawing on p. 23, fig. 30-I.