Tang Dynasty, 618-906 AD. A ceramic figurine of an ox with shoulders hunched and head thrown back, separate rectangular cart with scooped roof, spoked wheels, two lateral spars. 2.3 kg total, 21-30cm (8 1/4 - 11 3/4"). From the private collection of the anthropologist and author Desmond Morris, previously displayed in his drawing room at his Oxford home; previously from a west country collection, Bath, UK. [2]