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For authenticity, Mr. Iwanczyk has relied mostly on photographs of two 18th-century French horses, created under Louis XV for the Château de Marly outside Paris; it was on these horses that the Mackays’ sculptor, Franz Plumelet, modeled his work.

There are no combs or pins of gold, but in their place a scarlet plumelet of feathers—from the wings of the red cardinal.

Involuntarily the maiden fastens her glance on the plumelet, which flits upward and upward in the direction of the moon's silvery orb.

A small plumelet of eagle-down dances over his head.