Cultural Relics Prohibited from Being Exhibited Overseas --4

The Galloping Bronze Horse

Time: Eastern Han Dynasty (25－220 AD)
Specification: 34.5 centimeters high; 45 centimeters long
Excavation: Wuwei, Gansu Province, in 1969
Collection place: Gansu Provincial Museum
In order to suggest the galloping of the horse, the author, with a good imagination and an original approach, made the right hind hoof which supports the whole weight of the horse placed upon the back of a flying bird, the other three soaring in the air, showing that the speed of the galloping horse is swift as wind and quick as lightning and much quicker than that of the flying bird. In this way the author, cleverly making full use of the back of the flying bird, enlarged the area of fixing and ensured the stability of the horse.