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It is the work of Herbert Haseltine whose sculptures used beautiful materials and patinas and were inspired by Egyptian sculptures.   \r\n\r\nThis horse represents Polymelus a thoroughbred who won prized at Goodwood, Newmarket, Ascot and York.","physicalDescription":"Statuette, bronze.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Haseltine, Herbert","id":"A5418"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"bronze","id":"AAT10957"}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Bronze","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2015HM3294","2015HM3291","2015HM3296"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES395433"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statuette thoroughbred horse","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"United States","id":"x29333"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1925","earliest":"1925-01-01","latest":"1925-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Miss Davey in memory of her brother, George Henry Davey.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"17","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"including integral base "},{"dimension":"Height","value":"20.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"including integral base "},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"6.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"including integral base "}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions were taken by SCP on 19.11.14 for <b>Bronze Zoo: A Sculptural Menagerie </b>","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"BRITISH CHAMPION ANIMALS. THIRD SET. VIII, POLYMELUS (CHAMPION SIRE), C. HASELTINE, MCMXXV.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Given by Miss Davey in memory of her brother, George Henry Davey. Miss Davey's gift, A.193 to A.210-196 consists of eighteen objects representing nineteen animals as A.197-1969 represents two. The whole series originally consisted of 20 animals. George Henry Davey, who purchased the Third set of British Champion animals and in whose memory it was given to the Museum, was the Paris representative of Knoedler and Co, the art-dealers, for many years. Herbert Haseltine's idea of the series originated in his modelling of King George V's champion Shire stallion Field Marshall V (exhibited 1921). 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