Tomb figures of horses and camels, anonymous, 650 - 750

Identification

Title(s)

Tomb figures of horses and camels
Horse tomb figure
Tomb Figures of Horses and Camels (series title)

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-65

Description

Beeld in de vorm van een gezadeld paard uit een serie van zes graffiguren. Sporen van polychromie. Tang.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

650 - 750

School / style

Tang-dynasty (618-907)

Material and Technique

Physical features

earthenware

Material

earthenware

Measurements

height 46.0 cm × width 45.5 cm × depth 14.5 cm

Subject

What

horse
saddle

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Reijnier Flaes, Paris, 1965)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; excavation (Luoyang), 1937; ?Mathias Komor (Beijing), 1937-1939; purchased, by Reijnier Flaes (Beijing), 1939-1965; on loan to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1950; purchased, fl. 50,000, Paris, by the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1965, with AK-MAK-46 and -66 t/m 70, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Note RMA} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972.

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Zijden draad : China en Nederland 1600-2015, afb. 9.16, p. 224
Recent advances in glass, stained-glass, and ceramics conservation 2013 : ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group Interim Meeting and Forum of the International Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Stained Glass (Corpus Vitrearum-ICOMOS), Hannelore Roemich, Kate van Lookeren Campagne, p. 150, afb. 1
Silk thread : China and the Netherlands from 1600, fig. 9.16, p. 224
Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 48-49, cat.nr. 24
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 72
Een serie graffiguren uit de T'ang-tijd, Jan Fontein
The matter of Tang tomb figures : a new perspective on a group of terracotta animals and riders, Isabelle Garachon, Lucienne Maria van Valen
Klaas Ruitenbeek, 'De macht van de dingen; F.C. Terborgh als verzamelaar van Chinese kunst in Peking, 1939-1942', Aziatische Kunst 51/4 (2021), pp. 3-33.
Isabelle Garachon en Lucien van Valen, 'Gewapende paarden en kamelen', Aziatische Kunst 42/3 (2012), pp. 14-23.
I. garachon en L. van Valen, 'De hereniging van een paard met een ruiter', Aziatische Kunst 44 (2014) nr. 2, p. 11-12.
J. Fontein, Rose Hempel, 'China, Korea, Japan' in: Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 1968, Abb. 127.

Persistent URL

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