AN ELAMITE 'FAIENCE' ORNAMENT MODELLED AS THE FOREPART OF A HORSE, the head raised high with flaring nostrils, the forelegs folded under the animal's body which is modelled as a hollow cylindrical tube pierced laterally, remains of yellow glaze, early 8th Century B.C.

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AN ELAMITE 'FAIENCE' ORNAMENT MODELLED AS THE FOREPART OF A HORSE, the head raised high with flaring nostrils, the forelegs folded under the animal's body which is modelled as a hollow cylindrical tube pierced laterally, remains of yellow glaze, early 8th Century B.C.
5in. (12.7cm.) high

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Cf. S. Fukai, Ceramics of Ancient Persia, New York, 1981, p. 7, figs 8 and 58, pl. 5

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