After Giambologna, called Giovanni da Bologna or Jean Boulogne (Italian, 1529-1608): An Italian patinated bronze equestrian model of a pacing stallion
perhaps 18th / 19th century
the trotting horse with curling mane and slightly curling tail, its head slightly tilted to the right and mouth open, the right foreleg and rear left leg raised, raised on a red porphyry shallow rectangular plinth base, 17.5cm high, 18cm long 7.5cm deep
Footnotes:
The stance of this equestrian subject, which was one of the sculptors favourite models, is a reduction of the horse from the monumental bronze statue of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, erected in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence in 1594.

Giambologna was inspired by the antique over-sized bronze of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome), which had been set up as the focus of Michelangelo's rearrangement of the Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome. A version of the pacing horse was sent as a diplomatic gift to Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 and was inherited by his brother, King Charles I.