Artist: Tang Cheng 唐成 Material: Porcelain, amber temmoku glaze with golden tones Technique: High-temperature reduction firing

Dimensions: 33×45×15 cm (L×W×H) Year: 2020 The I Ching records that 'Heaven is the dragon; Earth is the horse' (乾为龙，坤为马). Taken together, these two forces give the Longma — dragon and horse in a single body — the Chinese emblem for self-renewing strength.

In this larger version, the artist lengthens the neck, deepens the arch of the spine, and curls the tail back on itself into a signature flourish. The figure is a fuller realisation of the creature first glimpsed in the smaller 2020 study — more confident, more finished, more ceremonial.

The glaze is amber temmoku, fired in reduction so that veins of darker brown and copper-gold run across the flanks like weather moving across stone. Because the glaze develops freely in the kiln, each of the ninety-nine pieces in this edition is subtly different.

The artist's hope is to invite a moment of self-recognition. We are, at different times in our lives, both the horse running hard and the dragon who has already touched what lies beyond ordinary effort. The Longma is the form that holds both at once. Edition of 99