Pictures of bronze horses and some introduction.

Bronze horse, Warring States period, 29cm high. The stallion, with his head held high, his ears bulging and his nostrils wide open, seemed to be breathing. The horse's head is carefully shaped and lifelike, and its body fluctuates to show its fatness, and its ponytail is knotted. This horse should be buried with him. In ancient times, death was like life. Emperors, generals, chariots and horses are often unearthed in the tombs of Shang and Zhou nobles. At this time, the animal images in tombs mostly appear in the form of handicrafts or containers or containers. By the Warring States period, various funerary wares such as metal, pottery and wood appeared. Although they look like Gu Zhuo, they mark the emergence of a new funeral system and lay the foundation for the growth and development of pottery and plastic funerary wares in later generations.

Bronze horse is a treasure of Handan Museum. These three bronze horses left over from the Warring States period are about 15 to 18 cm high and about 22 to 24 cm long. Some of them strut, others stand with their heads down. The horse's facial features and forehead mane are clear, the horse mane is expressed in lines, and the tail is drooping and knotted, which is powerful and elegant.

April 7th 1997 was stolen from the Zhaowang Monument in Handan City, Hebei Province, China. Three bronze horses and other cultural relics were resold by cultural relics dealers and flowed overseas through Hong Kong. After unremitting pursuit by the police of the task force, three bronze horses were recovered only in May 1999.

These three bronze horses are lifelike, with different shapes and high artistic value; More importantly, they were unearthed in Zhaowang Monument in Handan City, and they were works of the Warring States Period, which played a breakthrough role in understanding the politics, military affairs, culture and art of the Warring States Period.

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