A Cypriot terracotta horse
Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic, circa 700-600 B.C.
The horse with applied harness and trappings, modelled with a ridged mane, the hollow body with cylindrical opening at the front, with faded black striped decoration, 19.5cm high and 17.5cm long注脚Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 December 1974, lot 175.
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale.

For a slightly later example of a hollow cast horse figurine with an opening at the chest cf. V. Karageorghis, Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Athens, 1973, p.145, no. 91.