Equestrian Figure

CultureChinese

Date8th century C.E.

MediumWhite earthenware with lead glazes and traces of pigment

DimensionsOverall: 15 1/2 × 13 × 4 1/4 inches (39.37 × 33.02 × 10.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number49-22/1

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionStanding greenish-white glaze horse with brown glaze tail and mane, surmounted by male rider in Tartar costume of green glaze. boots, and saddle in black paint. brilliantly painted.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

In Quest of Excellence, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, January 12 - April 22, 1984.

Provenance

With J. T. Tai (1911-1992), Shanghai, China, by February 1948;

Purchased from J. T. Tai by C. T. Loo & Co., New York, stock card no. 46071, February 1948-March 1949 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. C. T. Loo & Co. was incorporated as C. T. Loo, Inc. in 1949.

Published References

Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, vol. XLVI, no. 265 (Boston: October, 1948) (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 136 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 208 (repro.).

Henry Trubner, The Arts of The T’ang Dynasty (s. l.: s. n., 1959) (repro.).

Capolavori Nei Secoli: enciclopedia di tutti le arti, di tutti i popoli, in tutti i tempi, no. 27 (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, May 26, 1962), 51 (repro.).

Bianca Maria Alfieri et al., L’apogeo imperial nel Medio ed Estremo Oriente (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1970), 96 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 81 (repro.).

Takashi Suzuki, Chūgoku Bijutsu, vol. 3 (Tokyo: Kōdansha, Shōwa 48, 1973), pl. 99 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 291 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 326, pl. 130 (repro.).

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