R9596/7
£12,500
Description
A pair of Chinese sancai large stoneware equestrian roof tiles each modelled with a warrior wearing a helmet and armour, seated atop a standing horse, supported by a saddle cloth above clouds, the manes heightened in black, the glaze with traces of iridescence due to weathering.
57cm high, 41cm long, 19cm wide.
Late Ming, 16/17th century.
Additional Information
- Formerly in an English private collection.
- The above dating is consistent with Oxford Thermoluminescence Test Certificate No. C115d95.
- A related ridge tile from the George Eumorfopoulos collection, is illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, no. 18:31, p. 535.
Condition
Condition: good.
Similar Items
M3177
£22,000Chinese Blanc de Chine Guanyin seated on a raised rockwork throne, wearing long robes extending to a cowl, resting her hand on her raised right knee, wearing a jewelled necklace and elaborate floral scroll tiara, covered in a cream glaze.
9 1/8 inches, 23.2 cm high.
Late Ming Dynasty, circa 1620.
M4899
£750Chinese porcelain blue and white Kraak deep saucer with foliate rim, painted with a pair of birds perched on rockwork above a stream beneath a large butterfly in flight, all in a shaped octagonal panel encircled by panels of fruits and flowers, the underside with some sand adhered from firing.
5 5/8 inches, 14.2 cm diameter.
Wanli, 1573-1619.
M4501
£26,000A Chinese Yaozhou monochrome deep bowl with conical sides and upright ribbed rim carved on the interior with three chrysanthemum blossoms on a continuous single scrolling branch amongst large leaves, the underside plain, covered overall in an even olive-green glaze falling short of the unglazed biscuit foot rim revealing the high-fired stoneware body.
7 1⁄2 inches, 19 cm diameter.
Northern Song Dynasty, Yaozhou kilns, Shanxi Province, 11th – 12th century.
