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A painted pottery figure of a prancing horse the energetically…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
29-Oct-2013
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Description:
A painted pottery figure of a prancing horse the energetically modelled caparisoned horse with a raised foreleg in a prancing posture, its head inclined to the left, the mouth open and neck with long thick mane, the draped saddle hanging in flared pleats over the saddle blanket, with faint traces of black decoration, removable docked tail, perspex stand (2) 54 cm high, 51 cm long. Provenance: Art Treasures gallery, Hong Kong, 11 March 1997. Certificate of Antiquity from Art Treasures gallery dating the horse to the Tang Dynasty, April 1997. Other Notes: Compare a horse dated to the Tang Dynasty from the Shanxi History Museum, illustrated in world of the Heavenly Khan, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2002, p.129 left. See a similar horse from the collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal sold Sotheby's, New York, 16 September 2008, lot 210
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