A painted gray pottery horse Han dynasty

standing foursquare, slightly reared back, the head well-sculpted with its mouth open, nostrils flared, eyes bulging and ears pricked back, the separately modelled tail flicked out and terminating in a knob, the gray ware extensively covered with a reddish-orange pigment, the bridle and teeth painted white

Sotheby's New York, 1st June 1988, lot 59.

The horse in good condition with expected breaks at all four legs, all restuck. The tail and tips of ears likely rebuilt. It still retains its structure and maintains original pigment.
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A similar horse from the William S. Bigelow collection and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, fig. 24; and another reportedly from Shaanxi province by Berthold Laufer, Chinese Clay Figures, New York, 1967, pl. LXIII.