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2. Flying Horse of Gansu - Wikipedia

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   The Flying Horse of Gansu was discovered in 1969. [1] It was unearthed from a Han tomb at Leitai in Wuwei. [2] The tomb belonged to General Zhang of Zhangye. [1] The discovery was made by a team of locals who had been told to dig air-raid shelters in the case of an imminent war with the Soviet Union.

3. Chinese sculpture - Wikipedia

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   The horse statue at Huo Qubing's Mausoleum Terracotta (baked clay) statuettes were known for a long time in China, but there are no known examples of monumental stone statuary before the stone sculptures at the Mausoleum of Huo Qubing , a general of Emperor Han Wudi who went to the western regions to fight the Xiongnu . [ 8 ]

4. Wenshou - Wikipedia

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   The animals featured in wenshou have significant symbolism within the Chinese culture and Buddhist religion. These traditional decorative elements are most commonly featured on roofs of imperial structures, the most prominent example being the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City in what is today the Dongcheng District in Beijing, China.

5. Tang dynasty tomb figures - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Tang Standing Horse figure, Canberra - Wikipedia

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   Standing Horse is a tomb figure created during the Tang dynasty in China. In ancient China, numerous tomb figurines and other artefacts were designed specifically to be buried with the deceased in large burial mounds .

7. Blackie (American horse) - Wikipedia

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   Statue honoring Blackie in Blackie's Pasture, Tiburon, California 37°53′47″N 122°29′22″W  /  37.8963°N 122.4895°W  / 37.8963; -122.4895 Blackie was an American horse who became locally famous in Tiburon, California , for standing in the same spot in his pasture for 28