Kotoko Bronze Equestrian Figure

Scroll-headed mount, a round saddle disc, and a rider with an upright stance

This equestrian figure is Kotoko, from Chad, Central Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. Bronze figures are generally made by the lost-wax method, in which a wax model is covered in clay, melted out and replaced with molten metal. Layered ridges circle the body and a round boss sits near the rear. Dark brown with green flecks. A narrow figure with a flat-topped head sits upright behind a horse whose neck curls over into a spiral nose. It is 1.6 inches wide, 0.5 deep and 2 high.

Stately in the way only very small things can be.