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Standing Horse

206 BCE–220 CE

China, Han dynasty

(202 BCE–220 CE)
bronze
Overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1977.57
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 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
  • 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
    von Spee, Clarissa. "Art In New Dimensions: Chinese Miniature and Small Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 52, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 117–121. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 118–119, fig. 5
  • China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).
    A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).
    Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).
    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).
    Art of Late Eastern Chou. Chinese Art Society of America, New York, NY (March 18-May 7, 1952).
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