PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EAST COAST COLLECTION A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY OF EQUESTRIAN WARRIORNorthern Qi dynasty Wearing heavy armor and a close-fitted helmet, his expression fierce and determined, looking slightly to the left with both arms relaxed, his hands in fists as if holding the rein, the horse standing foursquare on a rectangular base wearing long protective blanket and a fitted face shield, a small pierced hole at the rump for attaching an ornament, the freely painted black lines over red-and-white stripes on the armor and blanket suggesting scales of leather, with few remains of earth encrustation from burial. 8 3/4in (22.5cm) high 北齊 灰陶彩繪武裝騎士俑 Provenance: Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, June 16 2002 來源： 阿姆斯特丹Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art，2002年6月16日 A pair of painted gray pottery equestrian warriors of very similar modeling and painting style is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection , Volume Three (I), London, 2006, p. 165, no. 1171, described as Northern Qi dynasty, from Shanxi region. The author also cited a similar excavated example from the tomb of He Bachang (d. 553) in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, illustrated in Wenwu , 2003, No. 3, p. 14, color pl. 4 with line drawing on p. 23, fig. 30-I.