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Title

Caparisoned horse

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Ceramic figure of a horse standing on a thin ceramic base, which a high-arched neck and a vertical head; large saddle with tassels; traces of orange-ochre, pink red and white pigments

Century

6th century

Object Creation Date

534-550

Accession Number

1950/2.12

Medium and Support

earthenware with slip and painted decoration

Primary Keywords

ceramics

china (nation)

funerary art

funerary sculpture

horse

Title

Horse's head

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Object Creation Date

206 BCE - 220 CE

Accession Number

1964/2.79

Medium and Support

earthenware

Primary Keywords

head

horse

sculpture

Title

Horse Head

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Object Creation Date

206 BCE - 220 CE

Accession Number

1964/2.80

Medium and Support

earthenware with traces of polychrome deccoration

Primary Keywords

head

horse

Title

Caparisoned horse

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

late 5th c -early 6th c

Object Creation Date

581-618

Accession Number

1969/2.139

Medium and Support

earthenware with traces of polychrome

Primary Keywords

horse

Title

Horse Head

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

2nd century

Object Creation Date

1st century - 2nd century

Accession Number

1969/2.84

Medium and Support

earthenware with traces of polychrome paint

Primary Keywords

head

horse

Title

The Road to Shu

Artist

Matsumura Goshun

Physical Description

Travelers are seen on a winding mountain pathway, among overlapping layers of mountains.

Artist Life Dates

1752-1811

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

late 18th century - early 19th century

Accession Number

1970/2.152

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

Primary Keywords

bridge (built work)

bridges

child

emperor

figures

figures in landscape

horse

horses

landscapes

mountains

passes

rivers

road

saint

snow

travelers

trees

warriors

winter

Title

Horse head

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

2nd century

Object Creation Date

1st century - 2nd century

Accession Number

1974/1.169

Medium and Support

earthenware

Primary Keywords

ceramics

head

horse

Title

Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School

Physical Description

Worshippers gather and seem to celebrate around a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk at top center. Flanking these figures are two searted drummers. In the lower register men on horseback and elephant look up to them as the ride by and raise their weapons in battle. A trumpeter sounds his instrument in the bottom left.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1975/2.168

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Primary Keywords

deity

drums (membranophones)

horse

jain

jainism

manuscripts

worshippers

Title

Equestrian figure carrying a lance in his left hand

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

1976/2.65

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

equestrian

horse

man

Title

Four-armed Vishnu

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Physical Description

Vishnu stands with his legs apart holding his four attributes in his hands. Reading in clockwise direction from his right front hand he holds: his club, discus, conch and lotus, here a rather flat object cupped in his palm. His back two arms are extremely short. The figure is encircled with a decorated arch with a line of beads and triangular shaped openings around them. A stylized sun and moon are to either side of Vishnu’s head. He wears a variety of simple, lumpy jewelry at his feet are a horse to his right and a bull or cow to his left and between them are three rings lying flat on the base. At the front of the base are seven stylized horses, identifying this as a combination figure: Vishnu and the sun god Surya, whose chariot is pulled by seven horses.

Century

18th-19th century

Object Creation Date

18th century - 19th century

Accession Number

1977/2.49

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

bull

club (weapon)

conch (shell)

deity

discus

flames

hinduism

horse

lotus

vishnu

Title

Tsuba (sword guard) with inlaid design of samurai on horseback at the shore

Artist

Harunori

Physical Description

This small, flat metal piece has a quartrefoil shape. Three holes in the middle. Some chips can be seen around the center hole, which mended with silver and copper. A samurai on horseback is charging into the sea from steep hill; he is wearing a helmet, armor, and sword, and holding a fan. A pine tree is standing on the samurai’s right side; there are rocks and bamboo grass by the ocean. The motifs of the ocean, pine tree, bamboo grass and rocks also appear on the reverse side. Gold and some silver and copper inlays are applied on pine branches, samurai's helmet, horse's mane and bridle, bamboo grass on the shore, and spray from waves.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1978/2.2

Medium and Support

iron with gold, silver, and copper inlays

Primary Keywords

bamboo

horse

ocean

pine tree

samurai

Title

Horse (small folk bronze)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1978/2.81

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

folk art

horse

Title

Panch Mukha Shiva Riding a Horse (small folk bronze)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1978/2.88

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

deity

hinduism

horse

Title

Equestrian Figure

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1979/2.31

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

equestrian

equestrian statue

folk art

horse

man

Title

Snuff bottle with painted hunt scene on interior of glass

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1885-1910

Accession Number

1980/2.150

Medium and Support

glass with ivory stopper

Primary Keywords

deer

horse

hunter

hunting

landscape

snuff bottle

Title

Rock crystal snuff bottle with man on horse and Chinese text

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1920-1940

Accession Number

1980/2.151

Medium and Support

rock crystal, jadeite and brass

Primary Keywords

horse

snuff bottle

Title

Equestrian figure

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1980/2.259

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

equestrian statue

horse

Title

Horse

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1980/2.260

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

horse

Title

Ivory snuff bottle in the shape of an equestrian figure

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1912-1949

Accession Number

1980/2.79

Medium and Support

polychrome paint on ivory

Primary Keywords

equestrian

horse

man

snuff bottle

Title

Portrait of Maharao Ram Singh II of Kotah (r. 1827-66; on Horseback, with Two Attendants)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School

Physical Description

Image of a man on horseback with two men flanking him

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1840

Accession Number

1992/1.118

Medium and Support

opaque watercolor on paper

Primary Keywords

horse

horses

portrait

prince

Title

Untitled [Zebra] or horse

Artist

Nakayama Tadashi

Physical Description

The sweeping stripes of black and white that arch across the body of this galloping creature give the appearance of a zebra, yet the long, flowing mane is characteristic of a horse. A series of circles and crescents over and underlay the horse, and the background uses gold leaf.

Artist Life Dates

born 1927

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1958

Accession Number

1998/2.22

Medium and Support

color woodblock print with gold on paper

Primary Keywords

abstraction

circles (plane figures)

horse

stripes

Title

Animals of the Zodiac (pair with 2003/1.282.1)

Artist

Yoshikawa Kôkei

Physical Description

The animals are presented in zodiac sequence, from right to left: mouse, ox, tiger, hare, dragon, serpent, horse, goat, monkey, chicken, dog, and boar. The eight-fold screen allows the animals to seem to walk across the space. Negative space plays a significant role in the screen, creating a place for the animals to exist and at the same time extending into the room.

Artist Life Dates

active 1920's

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1924

Accession Number

2003/1.383.2

Medium and Support

one of a pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on silk

Primary Keywords

horse

ink

screen (furniture)

zodiac in art

zodiac signs

zodiac symbol

Title

Oil Lamp in the Shape of an Equestrian Warrior

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

It is a earthenware with a man riding a small horse with short legs over a thick rectangle plate. There is a lamp-oil container with hole over the hips of the horse, and a spout sticks out in the front breast of the horse, which enables to pour out water through the inside of the stomach of horse. The figure on the horse wears a triangular hat and armor. The left arm is disappeared.

Century

6th century

Object Creation Date

1st half 6th century

Accession Number

2004/1.187

Medium and Support

earthenware

Primary Keywords

earthenware

horse armor

lamp

Title

Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Two male figures wearing official robes and hats, sit side by side on thrones. The one on the right holds a shoe-shaped ingot and a scepter. The god on the left holds only a shoe-shaped ingot. In front of them is basin filled with coins and rarities such as jewels, branches of coral and shining ingots. On the right, a smaller male figure holds a horse on a tray while his counter part on the left holds a brush and a scroll. At the top is a sinuous dragon whose spine is composed of coins and above him is a horse bearing a stack of shoe-shaped ingots.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2006/2.49

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

Primary Keywords

coins

dragons

gods

horse

jewels

scepter

Title

General Pedro Altamirano

Artist

Armando Morales

Physical Description

Four armed men stand in front of a building. One man is kneeling with a machine gun on a tripod. Two dogs and a horse are with them.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1927

Object Creation Date

1993

Accession Number

2011/1.96.4

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

Primary Keywords

ammunition

color print

dog

horse

machine gun

men

Title

Warriors

Artist

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Physical Description

A woodblock print of two men entangled in combat at the base of a tree. Tree trunk takes up left side of print, in the distance are two green mountain peaks. A brown horse and rider are in the background (center right).

Artist Life Dates

1797 - 1861

Object Creation Date

1849-1853

Accession Number

2011/2.194

Medium and Support

woodblock print on paper

Primary Keywords

fighting

horse

kabuki

men

mountains

trees

woodblock prints

Title

Horse Torso

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

1st-2nd century

Object Creation Date

1st century - 2nd century

Accession Number

UA2005.149

Medium and Support

earthenware with traces of polychrome

Primary Keywords

ceramics

horse

torso

Title

Horse Torso

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

1st-2nd century

Object Creation Date

1st century - 2nd century

Accession Number

UA2005.150

Medium and Support

earthenware with traces of polychrome

Primary Keywords

ceramics

horse

torso