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Figure

About 1910 - 1935 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Decoration: Horse


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, painted in unfired colours
Brief description
Figure of a horse, upper part only; horse; Cer, China, 20TH CENTURY
Physical description
Decoration: Horse
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.2cm
  • Width: 21.3cm
Object history
Eumorfopoulos Collection
Notes on significance: Acquired as Han dynasty, reattributed to 20th century by Rose Kerr, 5.1988. Results of thermoluminescence test 127.m.6, carried out 12.3.1970 at Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology indicate a date of firing less than 110 years previously
Production
Hebei or Shanxi, CHINA
Bibliographic reference
'Collection Michel Calmann', Musee Guimet (Paris, 1969), pl.2 reproduces a horse from the same moulds, but with legs
Collection
Accession number
C.176-1938

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2000
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