Lot 234. A Painted Grey Pottery Figure of a Horse, Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); 22½in. (57.2cm.) high. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 8,812. © Christie's Image Limited

Shown standing foursquare with the well-modeled head facing forward and ears pricked alertly, with a separate docked tail inserted into a hole in the rump, the body painted brick red and the bridle and trappings in white and red pigment.

Property from the Schloss Collection. 

Literature: The Norwalk Weekly Life & Times, Ancient Images, Chinese Tomb Figures, 29 October 1998, p. C6.

Exhibited: Santa Ana, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Seeking Immortality: Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, 6 October 1996 - 16 March 1997, no. 90.
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Seeking Immortality: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Schloss Collection, 20 September 1998 - 3 January 1999, no. 90.

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766j4 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art, New York, 21 September 2000