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Lot 56

A LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY MODEL OF A HORSE
Han Dynasty

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
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A LARGE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY MODEL OF A HORSE

Han Dynasty
The torso and head molded separately and each painted with an underlayer of creamy white pigment and further decorated in shades of red and pink with black outlines with asymmetric archaistic strapwork that runs horizontally along the body, the bowed back draped with a simple spotted saddle blanket, the neck and head with similar strapwork, the head with large flaring nostrils and high-relief arched eyes highlighted with lashes, the interior hollow.
17 5/8in (44.8cm) high; 20 1/2in (52.1cm) long, perspex stand

Footnotes

漢 大件加彩灰陶馬

Published
Willow Hai Chang, 'The Scope of Collections is as Broad as the Universe, Side by Side is the Couple Happily Flying in the Sky. A Record of Mr. & Mrs. Hartman at New York and their Treasures of Chinese Works of Art', Art of China, No. 95, July 1993, p. 54, no. 40

出版
海蔚藍,「收藏天地廣,比翼樂飛翔」—記紐約赫曼伉儷(Mr & Mrs Hartman)及其中國藝術品珍藏,Art of China期刊,1993年7月號,頁54,图版编号40

Compare the very similar painted grey pottery model of a horse, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, color plate 5.

Another Han dynasty grey pottery horse painted in red with harness details in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by Tseng and Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Volume I, Boston, 1964, no. 32.

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