Fired in antiquity!!!It is very rare to find any of these figures with gold pigment!! Tang figure with similar pigment (gilded) are illustrated in Chana, Dawn of the Golden Age, 200-750 A.D., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, horse and female rider, p. 290 pl. 182, also civil and military officials, p. 292, pl. 184. All figures painted and gilded!!! See photos # 41 and 42.Outstanding pottery "mingqi" representing a painted and gilded pottery model of a horse and male rider.Red earthenware coated with white slip and remains of green, dark green, blue, gold, black and red pigment.Tang Dynasty (618-907), Chang’an, Shaanxi province, ChinaOriginal pigment.Height: 36 cm.Width: 29 cm.- The result of the thermoluminescence test, is consistent with the dating of the item, Tang dynasty (ca. 1250 years old). Sampling in 3 different points- Provenance: Very important and old private German collection, Mr. W. R., Wiesbaden collected before 1995.A painted, gilded and finely modelled horse, with dark green body, supporting a male rider and a bird, long sleeves covering the tow hands and the hair is swept up into a topknot and wrapped in a gilded kerchief called a putout.