Chinese figure of a mounted horseman

An image of Horseman. Unknown maker, China. Figure of a mounted horseman, on a rectangular base. The horseman is definitely a heavily bearded foreigner, wearing the costume normally associated with those from Central Asia. Holes have been pierced into, but not through, the hands. Perhaps they once held leather reins. Both the rider and horse are covered in a white slip, and then glazed in off white (which appears straw yellow under ultra violet light). There are also traces of black and red over paint. Both the base and the horse's legs have been broken. The front legs have two beaks each, and the back legs one break each. Mould made, white earthenware, height 26.3 cm, 618-906. T’ang Dynasty.

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Horseman. Unknown maker, China. Figure of a mounted horseman, on a rectangular base. The horseman is definitely a heavily bearded foreigner, wearing the costume normally associated with those from Central Asia. Holes have been pierced into, but not through, the hands. Perhaps they once held leather reins. Both the rider and horse are covered in a white slip, and then glazed in off white (which appears straw yellow under ultra violet light). There are also traces of black and red over paint. Both the base and the horse's legs have been broken. The front legs have two beaks each, and the back legs one break each. Mould made, white earthenware, height 26.3 cm, 618-906. T’ang Dynasty.

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Accession Number: C.19-1927
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 809 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 405.27kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:09:13 15:59:55

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