A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT FIGURE OF A HORSE
A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT FIGURE OF A HORSE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT FIGURE OF A HORSE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The horse is shown recumbent on a green-glazed leaf-form base, with head turned to the side, the long segmented mane and forelock falling between the pricked ears, and with legs bent as if about to stand. There is a circular opening in its back.
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) wide, wood stand
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R. Thornton Wilson Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1943.

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拍品专文

A nearly identical biscuit spotted horse in the James E. Sowell Collection is illustrated by M. Cohen and W. Motley in Mandarin and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Vol I: The James E. Sowell Collection, Surrey, 2008, pp. 188-89, no. 12.8, where the authors suggest that the inspiration for this horse is the "Black Jade Piebald Horse" given by the Tang dynasty General Tang Maozhong as tribute to Emperor Xianzong.

A pair of nearly identical horses, but with yellow-glazed tails and manes, on green leaf-form bases, is in The Copeland Collection, and is illustrated in W. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, 1991, pp. 64-5, no. 20. Another pair, from The Hodroff Collection, Part III, was sold at Christie's New York, 21 January 2009, lot 151.

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