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Article: Bronze stallion at Compton Verney.

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Leamington Spa Courier (Leamington Spa, England)
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February 28, 2007
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Neapolitan paintings, religious portraits and a Chinese bronze are among new items on display at Compton Verney country house.

The mansion, which was restored as an art gallery, will be showing its most recent acquisitions when it opens for the 2007 season on March 9.

The latest addition to its collection of Chinese bronzes is a statue of a stallion dating from the Han dynasty of 206BC to AD220. The bronze which would originally have been used on an aristocratic tombstone, symbolically pulling a carriage or chariot into the afterlife.

The gallery has also enlarged its 'Naples' collection of paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Among new ...

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