Standing Horse (206 BCE–220 CE): Art, History and Details

Standing Horse (206 BCE–220 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Standing Horse
• Date: 206 BCE–220 CE
• Culture: China, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
• Collection: China - Han Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1977.57

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Visser, H. F. E. "Mr. Minkenhof's Recent Acquisitions," Bulletin of the Museum of Asiatic Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, no. 32 (1951).
• Lyons, Elizabeth. Art of Late Eastern Chou: A Loan Exhibition. New York: The Chinese Art Society of America, 1952.
• Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of China. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1972.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.