Mortuary Figurine
Object Number: | C467 |
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Current Location: |
Asia Galleries Currently On Display |
Culture: | Chinese |
Provenience: | China |
Period: | Tang Dynasty |
Date Made: | Tang Dynasty |
Early Date: | 618 |
Late Date: | 906 |
Section: | Asian |
Materials: | Clay Glaze |
Technique: | Three Color Glaze Glazed Fired |
Iconography: | Horse |
Credit Line: | Purchased from C. T. Loo, 1925 |
Description
Glazed pottery figure of a horse with a green saddle, an amber body, and a cream colored mane. Symbolizing status and power, this horse figurine would have been placed with other ceremonial and everyday objects in a tomb. In the Tang Dynasty, the saddled horse was more common than the ox cart which in earlier periods symbolized a means of transport to the afterlife. The tri-color glaze, known as sancai, was more expensive then plain terracotta. It should indicate that the horses were made for an aristocratic occupant. Often mass-produced using a piece-mold technique, horses were slightly altered through adjustments in the neck and legs. C461 through C468 is a set.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
China Gallery (22 Feb 2017) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Chinese Rotunda (1968 - 22 Feb 2017) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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