A RARE PAINTED RED POTTERY HORSE Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) Slab-built with knife-cut legs and shown standing foursquare on a rectangular plinth, the head modelled with deeply hollowed nostrils and diagonal slash marks above and below the large wedge-shaped staring eyes detailed in black and white, the black mane bound into a horn-like crest projecting between the forward-pricked ears and striped in white, with flattened circular medallions applied to the black bridle and further black and incised trappings indicated on the stocky, brick-red painted body, the molded saddle hung with a heavy rectangular cloth stiffly flared at the sides and painted in the center with a red rectangle on a white slip field, traces of black pigment on the thick, rectangular tail 18½in. (47cm.) long
A RARE PAINTED RED POTTERY HORSE Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) Slab-built with knife-cut legs and shown standing foursquare on a rectangular plinth, the head modelled with deeply hollowed nostrils and diagonal slash marks above and below the large wedge-shaped staring eyes detailed in black and white, the black mane bound into a horn-like crest projecting between the forward-pricked ears and striped in white, with flattened circular medallions applied to the black bridle and further black and incised trappings indicated on the stocky, brick-red painted body, the molded saddle hung with a heavy rectangular cloth stiffly flared at the sides and painted in the center with a red rectangle on a white slip field, traces of black pigment on the thick, rectangular tail 18½in. (47cm.) long
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