Paperweight in the shape of a horse

China

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This silver standing horse very likely functioned as a paperweight on a scholar’s desk. The horse’s combination of naturalistic details and archaistic pose matches archaeologically recovered depictions in bronze and stone dating to the late thirteenth century.

Paperweight in the shape of a horse, Silver, lead, China

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