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Standing Horse
206 BCE–220 CE
(202 BCE–220 CE)
Overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
The fine steed has indentations on both sides of its body, indicating that it was once harnessed and pulled a carriage. Substituting a real horse, it accompanied a tomb occupant into the afterlife.- by 1951Samuel Hubert Minkenhof [1879–1956], Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York, NYHart Collection, New York, NY?–1977(J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1977–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Visser, H. F. E. "Mr. Minkenhof's Recent Acquisitions," Bulletin of the Museum of Asiatic Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, no. 32 (1951). fig. 2Lyons, Elizabeth. Art of Late Eastern Chou: A Loan Exhibition. New York: The Chinese Art Society of America, 1952. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, fig. 1Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of China. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1972. Reproduced: pl. 31Eskenazi Ltd. Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels, Gilt Bronzes, and Sculptures: Two Private Collections, One Formerly Part of the Minkenhof Collection. London: Eskenazi, 1977. Mentioned: cat. no. 6, p, 17; Reproduced: cat. no. 6, p, 16Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1977.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 1 (January 1978): 2–42. Mentioned: cat. no. 152, pp. 5, 43; Reproduced: cat. no. 152, p. 32 www.jstor.orgKathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Reproduced: p. 33, fig. 26; Mentioned: p. 31, p. 61Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. Reproduced: p. 332, fig. 10 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 11 archive.org
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