Horse's Head
Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE
Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220
Terracotta with red pigment
Overall: 8 × 6 3/4 × 3 3/8 in. (20.3 × 17.1 × 8.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Patrick C. Hill
S.981.127
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2026
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.11, Religion 2.02, Religions of Vietnam, Sara Swenson, Winter 2025
Geography 3.01, Living with Nature, Coleen Fox, Winter 2025
Philosophy 50.18, Animal Minds, Tina Rosenqvist, Winter 2025
Religion 40.08, Fear & Loathing in Religion, MK Long, Winter 2025
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums…?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Spring 2025
Religion 1.13, Sacred Movement, Robert Weiner, Spring 2025
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 70.24, Asian American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Spring 2025
College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025
Comparative Literature 55.03, Asian Societies, Culture, and Language 60.10, Eco-Fiction: Stories of Ghosts and Other Beings from Premodern China, Yiren Zheng, Fall 2025
Exhibition History
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 2024-February 24, 2025, July 2-October 4, 2025.
Provenance
Collected by Genevieve Carpenter Hill (1902-1984), Charlotte, Vermont between 1921-1981; given to present collection, 1981.
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