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9 juillet 2019

Five painted gray pottery figures of equestrians, Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD)

Five painted gray pottery figures of equestrians, Han dynasty

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Lot 80. Five painted gray pottery figures of equestrians, Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). Heights 11 1/4  in., 28.6 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 17,500 USD. © Sotheby's

each modeled as a soldier with hands raised to hold reins, seated astride a horse standing foursquare, the soldiers' garments, armor, saddlecloths and horses' eyes painted with pigment, one horse with a potter's seal impressed on the underside reading Guo yu (5).

Provenance: Chinese Porcelain Co., New York, 1997.
Property from the Estate of Warner LeRoy.
Sotheby's New York, 19th September 2002, lot 25.

Note: Stylistically these figures are related to the large group of equestrian figures discovered in the tombs of the Han dynasty general Zhou Bo and his son, Zhou Yafu, at Yangjiawan in Xianyang county, Shaanxi province.  Examples are illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol 3, Shanghai, 2000, pls. 72, 74, 82, and 88. The figures from Yangjiawan were made with detachable bodies. Pairs of figures, similar to the present lot, dating to the Han dynasty, have been sold in our New York rooms 23rd March 1999, lot 339, and at Christie's New York, 20th March 1997, lot 50.

The present lot is unusual because one of the figures has an impressed seal mark on the horse's stomach reading Guo yu, which may be the name of the maker or of a location.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 march 2013.

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