Celestial Horses
17th century
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 30 × 469 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124096
More than seventy horses in various poses and activities are depicted in this unusually long handscroll. Perhaps these are the fine horses of an imperial stable with equerries (officers of a prince or nobleman charged with the care of horses) training, feeding, and judging them. The act of judging horses was a metaphor of keen mental discernment in general, and it held strong symbolic overtones a…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 17th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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