Featured Large, gilded horse's head - any info?

I found this beauty at my thrift store Friday & liked it immediately! It is large (17" x 14"), heavy and made of something that reminds me of what a broken arm cast used to be made of?

The fiber you can see in the little hole on the bottom - what is this made of?
Is it old, older or new?

I didn't see any signature.
Thanks for any help!

 

Looks 1970 ish

 

Do you think it could be made out of plaster like the old casts? That's what those little pieces in the hole on the bottom remind me of?

 

Belly-Button Lint!

 

I 'd say it's definitely possible-but papier mache' could be in the running,the type of material used in the Mardi Gras & Venetian Carnivals.The Han Dynasty used mache' as early as 200 CE,then again plaster goes back at least 7,000 years- so who indeed knows what answers the suffocating sands of time may hide and what they may reveal ?

 

looks like fibreglass, probably mixed with something else for weight then painted

 

Yes, I thought fiberglass too.

Debora

 

As with Ozymandias:
...Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

 

You could put that in someone's bed for a fun Godfather joke

 

The severed head was from his favorite horse...that was a stunning scene!

 

I have seen the movie many times, and that scene is still riveting!

 

I would have also guessed 70’s-80’s (more 80’s maybe for
some reason) Maybe a mixture of materials,but probably just fibreglass (because of those fibres) Cool looking thing (not too sure where I would put it )

 

I'd say it's either fibre glass or some kind of plaster with fibre in it for bonding, to give it strength and hold it together. Hard to tell from photos alone without feeling it.if it is light and warm to touch, fibreglass. Cold and heavy, plaster.

 

Cold & heavy