Indian Pietra Dura Panel with Equine Motif

A pale horse stands on a green oval and looks back over its own shoulder.

This pietra dura panel with equine motif is contemporary, from Rajasthan, India, in hardstone. Pietra dura, the art of fitting cut and polished stones into images, reached a high point in Mughal India, and Rajasthani workshops still practice it today. A standing horse in honey and cream stone, its coat veined in browns, is set against a black ground. Its mane and tail are picked out in fine lines, and it stands on an oval of mottled green. A narrow golden border frames the scene. It is 18 inches wide, 18 deep and 1 high.

A horse that will never need feeding.