A rare Chinese pottery model of an elaborately saddled horse

A rare Chinese pottery model of an elaborately saddled horse, standing four square on a rectangular base and decorated with earth pigments, Wei dynasty 5th / 6th century AD, 39cm. Similar horses have been excavated from around the site of the Northern Wei capital Luoyang. Cf: The figure from the tomb of Yuan Shao with a similar knotted saddle cloth in Kaogu, 1973, no. 4, pl. 11:1. Sold with no reserve