In the imagery of the Indo-Europeans, in the early Iron Age, the horse played a considerable role.
The Greek style known as « geometric » thus gave us many horses, sometimes perched on a rectangular base, sometimes without a pedestal, and sometimes used as ornaments for an object or piece of furniture.
Here, it was a question of decorating a large cauldron on a stand, whose handles in the shape of circles were surmounted by bronze horses. They were fixed with rivets.
![Horse figure, Greek civilization, Greece.](https://www.barbier-mueller.ch/wp-content/uploads/cheval-de-bronze.png)
To learn more about this object, please download the catalogue entry by Alain Pasquier published in Le profane et le divin, arts de l’Antiquité. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller.