Vintage Japanese Haniwa Horse - Large lighting 90cm Length x 75cm Height

90cm Length x 75cm Height x 65cm Depth

Made by famous dutch ceramic studio 'Mobach'

Dimensions: 17cm Length x 16

the bamboo caning and bentwood is in very good order for this age

Price includes UK postage and packing

Vintage Japanese Haniwa Horse - Large lighting 90cm Length x 75cm HeightJapanese Haniwa 'Circle of Clay' Hollowed terracotta clay figures and shapes of different significances were made as funerary objects during the Kofun period and beyond, either for ritual ceremonial use or to be buried with the dead to protect them in the afterlife and for marking burial site boundary markings. They are still used in burials or left at gravesides for protection. Horses were used in ceremonies and arranged neatly in lines, signifying a