Tang dynasty (618-907), earthenware with traces of slip and red pigment, a female figure wearing a weimao or humao style hat popular during the Tang dynasty, if weimao may have originally had a fabric veil attached, riding a short and stout horse with short mane and tail, wearing a traveling cloak, the sculpture comes together with a carved wooden stand.


13 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 6 1/4 in., with stand 14 1/2 in.

From the collection of Thomas English Cody (1889-1948), the great nephew of Buffalo Bill Cody, and by family descent.

Good estate condition; some cracking and loss to pigments; encrustation to lower legs of horse; a break with repair to neck; a break with loss to ears; some possible restoration.