- Title:
- Terracotta horse and rider
- Object name(s):
- Figure
- Brief description:
- Moulded terracotta horse and rider with some incised details. Pellets have been applied for the eyes. The figures are coated with red pigment.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Associated concept:
- Ceremonial objects
- Associated concept:
- Folk Art
- Content - concept:
- horse
- Content - concept:
- rider
- Credit line:
- Given by J C Irwin, 1952.
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010DE7959/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 15.2
- Material:
- Clay
- Material:
- paint
- Object name:
- Figure
- Object number:
- IS.107-1952
- Object production date:
- c.1944
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1944-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1944-12-31
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Bankura District
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- probably
- Physical description:
- Moulded terracotta horse and rider with some incised details. Pellets have been applied for the eyes. The figures are coated with red pigment.
- Reproduction number:
- 2010DE7959
- Reproduction number:
- 2010DE7958
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- fired
- Technique:
- Yellowish buff terracotta with a red slip.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Both Bihar and Bankura district have a vivid tradition of making figures of elephant, lion and horses, with or without a rider as ritual figures. Horse and horse riders are also offered as votive objects. These were placed at wayside altars and shrines.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.60
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