New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Funerary Sculpture in the Form of a Two-Wheeled Cart Pulled by an Ox

Artist Unknown

CultureChinese | Tang Dynasty

Date8th century A.D.

MediumCeramic | Earthenware with variegated lead fluxed glazes

DimensionsOverall: 10 x 12 3/4 x 18 in. (25.4 x 32.4 x 45.7 cm)

InscribedOld label L50.363b/C.T.Loo; label Made in/China/46173; label MIA/36.50 (all seem to be dealer's numbers).

Credit LineGift of Gabrielle Parker Hubbard and J.W. Hubbard, Jr., in Memory of Sarah Harrison Parker and William L. Parker

Object number86.303

Collections

Asian Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 106

DescriptionOx and cart. Feet on rectangular base, his head held up with applied bridle, yoke and reins, covered overall with an ochre-colored glaze with touches of orange-red to bridle. A segment cut out of its rump to accomodate the cart with detached yellow glazed wheels molded with concentric circles of beads and lotus lappets, the spokes in relief, the cart glazed green and yellow on the sides with a yellow glazed roof, the front and back unglazed with a window and door. Grill work drawn in black on the front and back arches that support the roof.

Published References_Important Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, Masterpieces From the Schloss Collection_ (NY: Sotheby's, Monday, Dec. 3, 1984), no. 17 (for a similar object).