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  • A large Chinese painted pottery figure of a horse, Tang Dynasty, AD 619-906
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A large Chinese painted pottery figure of a horse, Tang Dynasty, AD 619-906

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One of the 'Six Livestock', referred to in The Rites of Zhou, used to be the domesticated horse. It was the embodiment of prestige, associated with stability, as well as a transferable marker of wealth. During the Tang Dynasty, ownership of horse statues was asserted as an aristocratic privilege in an edict forbidding artisans and tradesmen this right.

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Purchased from Konrad O. Bernheimer Kunsthandel, Munich-London, Promenadeplatz 13, Munich, 6 November 1989.

Thermoluminescence report dated 15 April 1988, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QJ.

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Literature

cf. Schmidt, R. (1924) Chinesische Keramik von der Han-Zeit bis zum XIX Jahrhundert, Frankfurt, Frankfurter Verlag, pl 11, where a similar example is illustrated.

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