Lot 151. A rare sancai-glazed anf blue-glazed pottery figure of an equestrian, Tang dynasty (618-907). Estimate 50,000 — 70,000 USD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's

the rider modeled as a foreign man with hands raised as if holding reins, wearing a long blue-glazed robe with a sash tied around the waist, the face well-defined with details picked out in black, the horse standing four square with head slightly lowered, with pricked ears and bulging eyes, covered with a creamy-white glaze, with the head, mane and tail highlighted in amber, the saddle streaked in green, amber and blue. Height 14 1/4  in., 36.3 cm

Provenance: Collection of Earl and Irene Morse.
Sotheby's New York, 3rd December 1986, lot 110.

Exhibition: A Thousand Years of Chinese Tomb Sculpture, Epcot Center, Orlando, 1983, cat. no. 28.  

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 13 sept. 2016, 10:30 AM