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Alternative Title
Abaster
Description
A small glazed ceramic horse figurine painted a single brown color with the exception of the grey-white rear hooves that do not appear to have been glazed. The horse is depicted standing upright and looking slightly to the left as if preparing to move. The right front leg has been broken off.
1. Abaster. In Greek mythology, one of the horses of Pluto, lord of the infernal regions.
Exhibit label:
ABASTER, THE HORSE OF PLUTO.
A gift from Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Adelantado of Florida.
—The First Gentlemen [sic] of America.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
6 x 2 x 4
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro, 1519-1574
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Historical fiction; Mythology, Greek; Virginia; Spanish--Colonization--America
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 1, Abaster, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i001.jpg