Items for Sale:    The Chinese Porcelain Company

Country of Origin China

Dated 618 to c. 640

Dimensions 35.00inch wide   46.25inch high (88.90 cm wide  117.47 cm high)

Description / Expertise

The unglazed figures of a stallion and a mare covered in white slip and painted with red, white and black pigment, powerfully modeled in mirror image, captured mid-stride with the head erect and turned toward the viewer showing a strong face with large, heavily lidded eyes and carefully incised lines around the mouth and cheekbones. The male painted red with large white patches imitating a piebald breed, rendered with an open mouth emphasizing the taught muscles of the face, with a split forelock around pricked ears and a cropped mane, fitted with a small saddle over two graduating, rounded saddlecloths, the tail docked and bound. The white-painted female with the mouth tightly shut, also with split forelock, pricked ears and cropped mane, fitted with a small saddle over a broad saddlecloth, the tail similarly docked and bound. The mare with remnants of red pigment inside the ears, nostrils and mouth, the stallion with red pigment in the nostrils.