Harvard Art Museums

Equestrian Male Figure Positioned to Shoot a Bow and Arrow, and Mounted on a Saddled, Prancing Horse

Date: 1st century BCE
Medium: Lead-glazed ware: molded, brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed glazes--the horse with hunter green, the detachable rider with caramel brown, his head, hands, and trouser legs unglazed, with cold-painted pigments on the exposed body clay
Culture: Chinese
Department: Department of Asian Art
Institution: Harvard Art Museums

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