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.
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