Early Tang Dynasty, 7th Century Standing foresquare on a rectangular base, the powerful head and neck raised and looking slightly to its real left, the strong face naturalistically-modelled and knife-pared with rippling mouth, flared nostrils, hooded eyes pricked ears and taught muscled neck with neatly hogged mane, the saddle and double-saddle cloth delicately incised and drilled with a single grooved line at the edges and a line of holes at the back of the saddle imitating the leather prototype, the body and legs of the horse further knife-pared and incised with the rippling skin and muscular structure of a thoroughbred, the short tail docked. 22 1/2in (57.3 cm) high