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  1. Painted Pottery Horse
  2. T'ang Dynasty
  3. (A.D. 618-906)
  4. Height            68.5cm
  5.      Horses and camels are 
  6. the animals most often 
  7. featured in T'ang three-
  8. color ware, since it was
  9. the fashion to provide
  10. pottery horses as funerary
  11. ware. The universal 
  12. fondness for the horse in
  13. the T'ang period means that
  14. art works on  equine  themes
  15. were associated with everyone
  16. from  court  nobility  to the
  17. ordinary masses.