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Yang Guifei Mounting a Horse
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Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
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Fragment of architectural plaque: horses (from frieze depicting chariot race)
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Fragment of a molded terracotta plaque, broken on all sides. Flat on the back. A great deal of brown dirt or accretion in the crevices.
Two overlapping horses, facing right.
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Yokihi (Yang Guifei)
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