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Lot 75GISELE CROES
RARE CAVALIER EN TERRE CUITE PEINTE ET EMAILLEE SANCAI
CHINE, DYNASTIE TANG (618-907), CIRCA VIIEME - VIIIEME SIECLE
Closed8 October 2020
Price Realised
EUR 81,250
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Specialist note
The figure wears a foreign style knee-length coat and boots. The position of the arms suggests that he may have been a musician, perhaps one of a troop of equestrian musicians such as found in Loyang and now in the Henan Provincial Museum, Tang Sancai, Zhongguo taoei quanji, col. 7. (Shanghai and Tokyo, 1983), pls. 88 and 89. This figure is most similar to a drummer from the above group. Similar sets of musicians have been found in Shanxi province, for example, the one in the tomb of Li Zhen in Liquanxian, now in the Chinese Historical Museum, Beijing. Ibid, pls. 4 and 93.