A painted grey pottery model of a Mongolian pony
Western Jin DynastyWith stocky hollow-constructed body and short, knife-pared legs, the hogged mane terminating in a bud-shaped knob between the pricked ears, the saddle with tall raised edges, the body decorated in cream and brown pigments and detailed in red to depict the trappings and saddle blanket.41cm (16.1/8in) long from the nose to the tip of the tail.
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The Professor Conrad Harris Collection of Early Chinese Art, formed in the late 1990's to early 2000's.Horses of this type have been found in Western Jin tombs. See Kaogu 1985:8, p. 732, no. M34:70. He Li in Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1996, p. 117, maintains that the pointed roundel on the muzzle is a uniquely Western Jin characteristic and that the other quintessential traits of these figures - pointed ears, exaggerated features of the head and muscular body - "conform to the grotesque style preferred by Henan potters".