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Watchtower

25–220 CE
(25–220 CE)
earthenware with lead glaze
Diameter: 39 cm (15 3/8 in.); Overall: 54.3 cm (21 3/8 in.)
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1989.71
Location: 241B Arts of Ancient China
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Description

In this funerary sculpture of the watchtower is a lively retinue of hunters, musicians, dancers, and domestic animals. The representation provides a vivid picture of the worldly enjoyment to be perpetuated in the otherworldly realm of the afterlife. A low-temperature lead glaze is applied to its earthenware body, enhancing the modeled forms with a brilliant, smooth coating like a layer of opaque glass.
Watchtower

Watchtower

25–220 CE

China, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE)

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