This handmade pottery candle holder features a man riding on a horse.  The man is a member of the “Band of Horsemen”, an ancient trade group in Southwest China.

Thousands of years ago, there was an ancient road treaded by human feet and horse hoofs in the mountains of Southwest China, bridging the Chinese hinterland and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Along the unpaved and often rugged road, tea, salt and sugar flowed into Tibet, while horses, cows, furs, musk and other local products came out.