June 23, 2022 10:00 EST
Collect: Asian Arts
88
A Chinese large painted pottery figure of a horse and rider
Han dynasty
Of sectional form, with separate body, rider, legs and tail; modern acrylic stand; accompanied by an original University of Hong Kong thermoluminescence test report #82.94, dated June 15, 1994, where it is stated "the result obtained is compatible with the claimed age [Han dynasty]."
H: 23 1/2 in. (without stand)
PROVENANCE:
Chinese Antique Centre, Hong Kong
Property from a private collection, Bethesda, Maryland, acquired from the above June 30, 1994
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Of sectional form, with separate body, rider, legs and tail; modern acrylic stand; accompanied by an original University of Hong Kong thermoluminescence test report #82.94, dated June 15, 1994, where it is stated "the result obtained is compatible with the claimed age [Han dynasty]."
PROVENANCE:
Chinese Antique Centre, Hong Kong
Property from a private collection, Bethesda, Maryland, acquired from the above June 30, 1994
NOTE:
For a similar figure on horseback, without removable legs, excavated from a Western Han tomb in Yanjiawan, Xianyang city, Shaaxi province, see Carol Michaelson, "Gilded Dragons, Buried Treasures from China's Golden Ages," London, 1999, p. 46, no. 15
