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Standing Horse

206 BC–AD 220

China, Han dynasty

(202 BC-AD 220)

Bronze

Overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1977.57

Location

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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.

Provenance

by 1951

Samuel Hubert Minkenhof [1879–1956], Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York, NY

Hart 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

Citations

Visser, H. F. E. "Mr. Minkenhof's Recent Acquisitions," Bulletin of the Museum of Asiatic Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, no. 32 (1951). fig. 2

Lyons, 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. 1

Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of China. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1972. Reproduced: pl. 31

Eskenazi 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, 16

Lee, 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.org

Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Reproduced: p. 33, fig. 26; Mentioned: p. 31, p. 61

Neils, 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.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 11 archive.org

Exhibition history

Art of Late Eastern Chou. Chinese Art Society of America, New York, NY (March 18-May 7, 1952).

Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels, Gilt Bronzes, and Sculptures: Two Private Collections, One Formerly Part of the Minkenhof Collection. Eskenazi Ltd., London, England (June 9-July 8, 1977).

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).

China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).

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