Figure
About 1910 - 1935 (made)
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Decoration: Horse
Object details
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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 |
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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 |
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Accession number | C.176-1938 |
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Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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