Ashmolean Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Standing on a rectangular plinth, the horse has a massive neck and an elegant head, slightly turned to the left, the features well rendered, with long curled fringes, angular, cropped mane, and tied-up tail. The body is naturalistically modelled, the harness straps adorned with square florets and hung with tassels and probably a bell in front, the saddle placed over an oval blanket and draped with a cloth which is tied together on either side. The horse is glazed in sancai (‘three colours’), with a deep amber-brown predominating, with white blaze, mane, tail and harness, green tassels and amber-yellow bell, while the saddle and saddle blankets were left unglazed and show traces of pigment. The earthenware body is of light beige colour.