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📜 The Karakhanid Turk Groom of the Khotan Tribute (Gift?) Horse in Northern Song Court Art - Five Horses (Wuma Tu) by Li Gonglin (11th Century CE)

Transcription of the lines on the left:

右一匹元祐元年十二月十六日左麒麟院收于阗国进到凤头骢八岁五尺
四寸


Translation:
The horse on the right: On the sixteenth day of the twelfth month of the initial year of the Yuanyou era [January 22, 1087], the Left Qilin Yuan received a piebald named “Phoenix-Head” presented by Yutian [Khotan]. It is eight years old and its height is 5 chi and 4 cun


Title: Wuma Tu (Five Horses)
Artist: Li Gonglin (1049 - 1106)
Artwork date: 1106 CE
Provenance: private collection in Japan
Physical format: painting, 204.5h x 26.9w cm
Medium: ink on paper
Dynastic period: Song Dynasty
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