Galop Volant

H Carre Hermes Paris > Fall - Winter 1998 / 99

Flying Gallop

It is the improbable pace of these horses, whose impetus literally makes them take off; such are these equestrian statuettes, clay models dating from the tang, the dynasty of emporers who reigned over China between 618 and 907 AD. This period was the high spot of civilisation. Ladies shone at polo, and horsemen knew that the horse was on earth as the dragon was in heaven: worthy of veneration.