Three-color horseback hunting figurines

[Three-color horse riding and hunting figurines]

Tang Dynasty, 42 cm high
The hunters wear narrow sleeve clothes, hold the dog with both hands, wear boots, and sit on the saddle with stirrups. Ma held his head upright. The Li and Tang dynasties are of northwest ethnic origin, and hunting on horseback is their own national custom. Tang Taizong once said: “When a big man is alive, there are three pleasures: peace in the world, enough for everyone, and one joy; grass is shallow and animals are fat, and the bow is not empty, the arrow is not false, and the two pleasures are also; Liuhe Datong, Wanfang Xianqing, Zhang Legao feast, and up and down harmony, and three pleasures are also.” Driven by the royal family, hunting is popular in the Tang Dynasty, It became a beautiful landscape of social life at that time