Quartermaine Hall

Artisan: Robert Olszewski
Date: 1985
Inscriptions: signed with the artist’s stamped ‘signature’ ‘Olszewski’, and further stamped with ‘Goebel 1985 642-P’ (on the underside)
Dimensions: 25 x 24 x 10 mm; 1 x 1 x ⅜ inches (height x width x depth)
Intended Room: Library
Inventory number: 2021.163
Category: Figurines

Provenance: Bought from: SP Miniatures in 2021

I’ve loved Tang horses ever since reading Guy Gavriel Kay’s Under Heaven, and in lieu of getting a real one, I thought it would be a good compromise to buy one for Quartermaine Hall. Robert Olszewski’s figurine has the bulbous shape and smoothly arched, muscular neck of the typical Tang horses. This is rather a powerful piece to stand alongside the delicate Rococo figurines of the Breakfast Room, and probably too sophisticated in appeal for the Smoking Room, so I suspect it will be displayed in the Library as further proof of the family’s cosmopolitan tastes and collections.