A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A BULL

NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (386-534)

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A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A BULL
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (386-534)
The muscular beast modeled standing foursquare on a rectangular base, its well-formed head positioned between the large hump on its neck and the dewlap that hangs beneath, adorned with a decorative harness and trappings applied with circular bosses suspending oval-shaped ornaments, the details all accented with orange pigment
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Kozo Moriya Collection, Kyoto, Japan.
Christie's, New York, 30 May 1991, lot 236.

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar caparisoned ox illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 7; another is included in the Idemitsu Museum of Art Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Works of Art, Tokyo, 1978, no. 154.

The result of Oxford themoluminescence test no. 566p33 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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