Editing Equestrian statue (section)

===Ancient Middle and Far East===
A number of ancient [[Egypt]]ian, [[Assyria]]n and [[Persia]]n [[relief]]s show mounted figures, usually rulers, though no free-standing statues are known. The Chinese [[Terracotta Army]] has no mounted riders, though cavalrymen stand beside their mounts, but smaller [[Tang dynasty]] pottery tomb Qua figures often include them, at a relatively small scale. No Chinese portrait equestrian statues were made until modern times; statues of rulers are not part of traditional Chinese art, and indeed even painted portraits were only shown to high officials on special occasions until the eleventh century.<ref>Stuart, Jan & Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida. [https://books.google.com/books?id=W2aaAAAAIAAJ&q=Chinese+Ancestor+portraits ''Worshiping the ancestors: Chinese commemorative portraits''], Stanford University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|0-8047-4263-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8047-4263-4}}</ref>