A PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EQUESTRIAN EARLY TANG DYNASTY

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

pottery

the rider modeled as a Turfan woman with hands raised, the horse standing four square with head slightly lowered to the left, traces of pigment, the interior hollowed

Provenance

Collection of Ezekiel Schloss.
Collection of Earl Morse.
Eskenazi, London.

Exhibited

Spirit and Ritual. The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 36.