modeled standing foursquare on a rectangular base with arched neck and head thrown back, mouth agape and nostrils flared, with simulated tufted hair at the head, neck and upper legs, a pair of bulging 'monster mask' saddlebags  set between twisted skeins slung between the two humps and secured on projecting packboards, the pleat-hemmed saddle cloth beneath, traces of white slip and ocher, iron red, red and black pigments

Collection of Potter Palmer, Jr. (1875-1943).
Gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago by in 1941 (acc. no. 1941.1016).

The figure with restored breaks to the stand, all four legs and across the base of the neck as well as other minor repairs and restoration to pigment loss.
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