A Boeotian terracotta figure of a horse and rider, c. 550 BC, hand modelled, with nicely stylized features and decorated with bands in dark brown slip. H: 4 7/8 in (12.4cm), 5 ½ in (14cm). Intact and a handsome example. Ex Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam, 1964; Property of a New York City estate. The horse and rider figures were popular grave goods, Boeotia being one place in particular where they have been found in numbers. Offerings of this nature may suggest real horses were important marks of social and/or political status and these figure might have been placed with the deceased on respect for the position he or she may have held within their society.

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