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  1. Belfry Bat says:
    January 21, 2025 at 8:02 am

    Daniel Mitsui had already written several opinions lamenting this kind of scam, as you will surely already know…

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  2. KevinT says:
    January 21, 2025 at 9:02 am

    Shouldn’t the budding sculptors really be starting with the plinth course before moving on to statuary?

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  3. Occasional Correspondent says:
    January 21, 2025 at 12:09 pm

    There is a — something — under the horse’s right rear hoof — a python?  What is that?

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  4. Occasional Correspondent says:
    January 21, 2025 at 3:19 pm

    I also note no stirrups, and legs look to be too extended/”relaxed” to be in stirrups.  Unclear to me whether there’s a saddle or just horse blankets; and no girth/cinch apparent.  To my eye, it looks like a European/Caucasian rider; the rider’s dress seems to be pre-pants era.  If wikipedia dates are good, in Europe, saddle with no stirrups would fall between umpteen [hundred?] BC and 5th Century; no saddle, no cinch, even earlier.  What of the bridle-&-bit? — I’m not enough or a horseman or horse historian to assess the era of that tack.  Could also be the sculptor was working in a tradition older than the sculptor’s own time; or produced an anachronistic mix ignorantly or heedlessly or deliberately. 

    Of course, all the above could also be put down to not-sharp-enough eyesight on the part of the correspondent.

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