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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AuDragon, post: 422966, member: 6974&quot;]As AJ said, the cobalt blue version just doesn&#039;t look correct to me. The colour just seems too vivid and recent, but what do I really know. The blue colour photograph AJ posted from the MFA is much more like the Tang horses I have seen in the antique stores in Hong Kong and China. Your green horse looks more like the traditional sancai to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to really tell is with a Thermoluminescence test, which the big auction houses usually undertake to authenticate an object, especially in the 5/6 figure category. The current cost for the test in Australia is about $300 - $500 per sample, but I&#039;m not sure of the cost elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to tell the story of how most of the COA are produced for Chinese Tang antiques in Hong Kong and other parts of the world, but I&#039;m not sure that is relevant to this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one pair of blue &quot;Tang&quot; style horses I bought at auction recently for a few hundred dollars. Sorry they are in storage at the moment or I would photograph them for you, but I just love them. Fake or Real! There is something that just resonates with these style of horses for me, and I am very happy to own a quality repro as it is most unlikely I will be able to afford a Sotheby&#039;s, Christie&#039;s,&nbsp; or Bonhams object. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck and I hope you enjoy your wonderful surprise.</p><p><br /></p><p>My pair of blue beauties from the original catalogue:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]147821[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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