Earthenware Horse

Free-standing horse figurine (probably a toy) made of earthenware and covered with a cream-coloured engobe with a brownish-black painted slip under a transparent colourless glaze. The horse is depicted with a small head and only one projecting ear that is extended into a high curving neck, a prominent integral saddle on its back, a twisted tail and satnding on all four elongated tubular legs. the forehead decorated with a pair of trefoils and the neck with runny wavy lines imitate the mane. The forelegs, hind legs and the lower border of the saddle featuring large bifurcating half-palmettes and the center of the saddle with a transverse, sketchily hachured band. Both, the trappings around the chest and the plaited tail, enlivened by a row of punctuated roundels.