Celebrating the Year of the Horse

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• The jade zodiac set

  Look for twelve pale green jade animals, each in its own pose; the horse, seventh from the left, carries a big banana-leaf fan.

• The bronze chariot plaque

  A four-inch bronze from the 8th to 7th century BCE showing a horse-drawn chariot with some parts in profile and others seen from above.

• The legless Han cavalry horse

  Look for the notches in this earthenware horse's body: it once stood on wooden legs, which have not survived, with its rider beside it.

• The Tang zodiac animals in official robes

  Twelve foot-tall tomb figures of zodiac animals dressed as officials, once brightly painted, now showing only their white base slip.

• The Bactrian horse's head

  An earthenware head of the Central Asian breed the Han court called heavenly horses and likened to dragons.

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• Ordubete edo gutxiago
• Iluntzeko bisitak
• Dena ikusi duten bertakoak

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You want big sculpture: apart from a few tomb horses, most pieces are only a few inches tall.

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Children 12 and under get into the Met free. The zodiac animals appear in two full sets, jade and pottery, so kids can hunt for their own birth-year animal.