This clay sculpture was made by Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund in 1934. It is made with limestone and has tiny detailed pictures at the bottom of the limestone sculpture. If you look closely you will see tiny engraved pictures of what looks like dragons (beasts) and a horse with a carriage. This is my favorite artwork out of all five because of all the hard work and detail that was put into this sculpture with all of the details in the piece. I especially like how all the dragons go their own separate ways and are all different in their own ways. All the horses face the same way as the others even if they are a different design or a different look from the horse that came before it. The art on this sculpture was for a very detailed tombstone. I would bet this tombstone was for a regular old person and not any rich or high class person because it's very detailed and beautiful but there is not any gold or diamond or silver so it might not be for a higher class person. In the museum, this sculpture is used as a wall panel rather than a tomb.
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