A PAINTED EARTHENWARE MODEL OF A PRANCING HORSE, China, Tang dynasty, spiritedly modeled with right foreleg raised, the head tucked in and mouth open, the mane to one side of the arched neck, the docked and bound tail swinging upward, the red saddle cloth trailing down in crisp pleats, traces of orange and white pigment remaining- Property from an Austrian private collection - A TL-Analysis by Oxford Research Ltd. is consisting with the dating of this lot - For a related sculpture in the Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, dated to the first half of the 8th century, with similarly curling saddle cloth and raised right foreleg, but also with a seated lady rider, see W.Watson, La Céramique Tang et Liao, Fribourg, 1984, p.194. For a smaller but similarly modelled horse see an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no.67.62.2 - Partly restored