Kotoko Bronze Equestrian Figure

Wiry horseman with a baby-faced passenger on his back, perhaps

This equestrian figure is Kotoko, from Chad, Central Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. Small bronzes of a rider on horseback typically show a simplified body, an upright seat and a stylized head, with details worked into the cast surface. Surface is coppery brown with pale green mineral crust in the folds. A seated figure in a rounded cap carries a smaller shape behind its shoulders, atop a horse with a lifted head, bumpy back, and splayed, tapering legs. It is 2.5 inches wide, 0.5 deep and 2.25 high.

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