Unknown Artist
- Title
- A massive earthenware horse
- Place of origin
-
Sichuan Province →
China
- Period
- Han dynasty 206 BCE - 220 CE → China
- Year
- 1st century-2nd century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- buff-grey earthenware with a chestnut coloured glaze and some green glaze splashed on the mane; modelled with minimal harness detail
- Dimensions
-
108.5 x 31.0 x 103.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr Ronald Shen 2000
- Accession number
- 235.2000
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
In recent years a number of these distinctively modelled horses, with tubular bodies, overly large and thick necks, and flaring nostrils, have been recovered from tombs and burial sites in Sichuan province in Southwest China. Clearly related to the slightly more refined styles of such figures from the metropolitan north, in and around the then capital in Shaanxi province, these Sichuan horses are distinguished by their scale, their often cumbersome appearance and their generally startling demeanour.
Asian Art. Dept., AGNSW, August 2000.
