Bronze Flying Horse Resin This elegant blanket box

This elegant blanket box

where low furniture would be placed on the heated 'kang' platform that formed the main living space in the winter months

circa 1940

whilst the large brass door hardware gives an unmistakeable oriental feel

but these are faithful reproductions

Bronze Flying Horse Resin This elegant blanket boxThese cast bronze horses are copies of one unearthed in Gansu province in 1969 that dates from the Han dynasty (206BC 220AD). The original is now in the Gansu Provincial Museum, but these are faithful reproductions. Referred to as the 'Flying Horse of Gansu' the horse is shown in mid gallop, with one of it's hooves on a swallow.