Equestrienne, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907), c. 725/750
Earthenware with polychrome pigments
56.2 x 48.2 x 39.0 cm (32 1/8 x 19 x 15 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer Wood, 1970.1073
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Chen Wanli, Tao Yong [Ceramic Figures]. Beijing: Zhongguo gudian yishu chubanshe, 1957, pl. 50.
Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago / Harry N. Abrams, 1993), p. 47, p. 46 (ill.).
Virginia L. Bower, “Two Masterworks of Tang Ceramic Sculpture,” Orientations 24, 6 (June 1993), pp. 75-77, cover (ill.), p. 75, fig. 11.
Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (rev. ed). Art Institute of Chicago, 2003, p. 68 (ill.).
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p.144, p. 115 (ill.).
Ownership History
Ex collection: Potter Palmer II