Lot 103. A sancai-glazed harnessed horse, Tang dynasty (618-907). Length 53.5 cm, 21 in. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 GBP. Lot sold 52,500 GBP (67,835 USD). Courtesy Sotheby's.

standing four square on a base, its harnessed head turned sideways, ears pricked, the long mane parted at the forelock and falling to one side, covered in a straw-coloured glaze and matching the docked and bound tail, the green-glazed saddle gathered at the sides, the saddlecloth splashed in green, chestnut and straw and hung from straps moulded with straw-coloured florettes suspending green tassels, the body glazed in a rich dark chestnut trickling over straw-glazed hooves on the unglazed base.

Provenance: Formerly in the Highfield Jones collection.
Sotheby's London, 8th July 1975, lot 54.
Sotheby's London, 10th December 1985, lot 101.
Thence in the family by descent.