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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon

陶炉上的 神人喂龍浮雕

100–1 BCE
(206 BCE–8 CE)
earthenware with impressed relief decoration
11.5 x 30.8 x 1.3 cm (4 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Weight: 0.72kg
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.134
Location: not on view
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Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.

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Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife. This panel with a dragon was part of a miniature pottery stove to be placed in a burial chamber. This scene of a dragon being fed fungus by a winged fairy is molded on the panel. The dragon is an auspicious creature and an animal of the cardinal directions that protects the east.
Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon

100–1 BCE

China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)

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