Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time

“Year of the Horse” explores the horse’s enduring power, beauty, and symbolism in Chinese culture—from ritual bronzes to imperial scrolls—celebrating its roles as creature and emblem of strength, status, virtue, aspiration, mobility, mythology, and resilience across millennia.

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Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time

“Year of the Horse” explores the horse’s enduring power, beauty, and symbolism in Chinese culture—from ritual bronzes to imperial scrolls—celebrating its roles as creature and emblem of strength, status, virtue, aspiration, mobility, mythology, and resilience across millennia.

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China, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), Celestial Horse (detail), bronze with traces of polychrome, gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton, 2002.45