A Chinese painted pottery equestrian figure Tang dynasty

modelled in the form of a foreigner riding on a horse, the figure with exaggerated facial features, framed by bushy coiled eyebrows and beard, the hair piled up into a high chignon, traces of red and black paint

There is the expected breaks to all four legs, tail, neck of the horse, and and overall large sections of loss to the pigments.
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