Dancing Horse, 608-907 CE, China, Tang Dynasty, earthenware with pigments, Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of Carl and Eleanor Strauss, 1997.Credit: Cincinnati Art Museum
Dancing Horse, 608-907 CE, China, Tang Dynasty, earthenware with pigments, Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of Carl and Eleanor Strauss, 1997.Credit: Cincinnati Art Museum
That’s probably not a horn, but a tuft of hair.
The Tang Dynasty is most famous for inventing instant breakfast drinks.
I’m going for the unicorn-with-horns-on-its-butt theory. Three on each side is six - a hexacorn?
Scientists were being paid by the hour. Good money.
Interesting story. I’d say Dr Strobbia has just found himself a lucrative new career.
Who knew ancient Chinese dancing horses had butt spikes.
What a tassel, er, I mean hassle.
“The Chinese dancing horse sculpture at the museum is so lifelike that it seems to be ready to gallop off its pedestal.”
I often take claims too literally but no freaking way that horse looks anywhere near lifelike.
The assistant professor gave a withering argument.
They act like dancing horses were something out of this world.
and the other three???
One thing I do know - I have a much different definition of lifelike than they do.
“Sung said Emperor Xuanzong from the eighth century loved horses so much that he had a stable of more than 40,000. For one birthday celebration, he invited a troupe of 400 dancing horses to perform the “Song of the Upturned Cup.”
This is one of those statements that make me think ‘are we just spending our lives on earth not knowing what to do and filling it up with wasteful things like this’?
Those are some weird-ass horse proportions.
Looking at the way the tail is represented, I’m kinda surprised the mane isn’t braided too.
Or, it’s an actual unicorn and they have weird tails.
Dressage
They wonder about an added tassel on the horses’ forehead, and ignore the spikes on its butt?
” For one birthday celebration, he invited a troupe of 400 dancing horses to perform the “Song of the Upturned Cup.” “
I can only imagine what they’d have them do today. Can a horse twerk?
