Etched Bronze Flying Horse 29 x 36cm Tables like our black lacquer

Tables like our black lacquer ladies cabinet were made popular during the Qing dynasty

These are interspersed with small carved floral motifs

'waisted' top and the 'S' shaped stretchers between the legs

are from Shanxi province in central China

apothecary chests like this one are increasingly rare to find and it would make a lovely

Etched Bronze Flying Horse 29 x 36cm Tables like our black lacquerThis cast bronze horse is a reproduction of a similar horse unearthed in Gansu province in 1969 that dated from the Han dynasty (206BC 220AD). The original is now in the Gansu Provincial Museum, but this one is in the same pose, shown mid gallop with one of its hooves on a flying swallow a pose which gave the Han dynasty horse its name the 'Flying Horse of Gansu'. The dark base is beautifully etched around the horse's back, flanks and head in