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

Identification

Title(s)

Tomb figures of horses and camels
Tomb figure of a horse
Tomb Figures of Horses and Camels

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-70

Description

Graffiguur of beeld van aardewerk in de vorm van een paard met een ruiter. Tang.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

c. 650 - c. 750

School / style

Tang-dynasty (618-907)

Material and Technique

Material

earthenware

Technique

formed / fired

Measurements

height 47 cm × width 35 cm

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; purchased, fl. 50,000, Paris, by the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1965, with AK-MAK-46 and -65 t/m -69, 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

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
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
The matter of Tang tomb figures : a new perspective on a group of terracotta animals and riders, Isabelle Garachon, Lucienne Maria van Valen
Een serie graffiguren uit de T'ang-tijd, Jan Fontein
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.
I. garachon en L. van Valen, 'De hereniging van een paard met een ruiter', Aziatische Kunst 44 (2014) nr. 2, p. 11-12.
Isabelle Garachon en Lucien van Valen, 'Gewapende paarden en kamelen', Aziatische Kunst 42/3 (2012), pp. 14-23.
J. Fontein, Rose Hempel, 'China, Korea, Japan' in: Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, 1968, Abb. 127.

Persistent URL

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