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The Flying Horse of Gansu, [1] also known as the Bronze Running Horse (銅奔馬) or the Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow (馬踏飛燕), is a Chinese bronze sculpture from circa the 2nd century CE. Discovered in 1969 near the city of Wuwei, in the province of Gansu, it is now in the Gansu Provincial Museum. "Perfectly balanced ...
For all these reasons, the figures have not shared in the huge increase in Chinese art prices since the 1990s, which has been driven by Chinese collectors. The record price for a horse remains £3,740,000, [77] from a sale by the British Rail Pension Fund at Sotheby's in 1989. In 2002 the dealer who had sold this piece to the pension fund in ...
Two sancai-glazed Tang dynasty tomb figures, early 8th century, Prague National Gallery Female horse rider, Tang dynasty. Ferghana horses (Chinese: 大宛馬 / 宛馬; pinyin: dàyuānmǎ / yuānmǎ; Wade–Giles: ta-yüan-ma / yüan-ma) were one of China's earliest major imports, originating in from the Fergana Valley in Central Asia. [1]
A statue of the Red Hare in front of the Mo Tai Temple in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. The Red Hare or Chi Tu (Chinese: 赤兔馬; pinyin: chì tù mǎ) was a famous horse owned by the warlord Lü Bu, who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.
Tenghuang, a fox with horns on its back or a horse-like creature. Teng (mythology), a flying dragon. Three-legged crow, also known as Jinwu or Taiyang Shenniao; Three legged crow in a Mural from the Han Dynasty. Three Corpses; Tiangou, a dog which eats the moon, resulting in an eclipse. Tianma, a heavenly horse. Statue of a heavenly horse ...
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...
The Tianma is a flying horse that was sometimes depicted with chimerical features such as dragon scales and was at times attributed the ability to sweat blood, possibly inspired by the parasite Parafilaria multipapillosa, [1] which infected the highly sought-after Ferghana horse (大宛馬), sometimes conflated with Tianma.
Beginning around the 3rd century BCE, Chinese classics mention Bole, a mythological horse-tamer, as an exemplar of horse judging. Bole is frequently associated with the fabled qianlima (Chinese: 千里馬) "thousand-miles horse", which was supposedly able to gallop one thousand li (approximately 400 km) in a single day (e.g. Red Hare, sweats blood horse).