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Alternative Title
Cyllaros
Description
A large glazed ceramic bay horse with white stockings (markings) on its forelegs and a white stripe on its face. The tail is short. It appears to be a young horse standing on four long legs with an arched neck and head bent slightly downward. Similar in style to Horse 15.
19. Cyllaros. In Greek mythology, the horse of Castor, the mortal son of Leda, by her husband Tyndareus, King of Sparta.
Exhibit label:
CYLLAROS, THE HORSE OF CASTOR.
A gift from Colonel Henry Esmond of Castlewood-in-Virginia.
—"Colonel Esmond of Virginia," in Let Me Lie.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
12 x 3 x 11
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Historical fiction; Mythology, Greek; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. History of Henry Esmond
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 19, Cyllaros, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 4, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i019.jpg