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Apr. 18th, 2010 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Tang Horse
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
This is the most recent of the ancient equines - Tang Dynasty is 618 - 907 AD. Actually I think that may make him contemporary to the Viking horse, which is circa Beowulf.
I love how bunched up he is, and the chiseled definition on his legs. Red Kate and I were talking about our favorite parts of horses. She likes the curve of their rump down the back of the stifle to the hocks, and all the power implied by the working on the tendons and muscles. I have a lingering fondness for toplines - crests and withers and backs and rumps - all those lovely curvy parts that link together to make a horse such a wonderful thing to look at.
I have pictures of the bruise if people want to admire it, but otherwise I'll file them with the astounding bruise I got when a wheelbarrow mugged me at a previous barn.