Apr 30, 2018

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

陶炉上的力士搏虎浮雕

100–1 BC

Earthenware with impressed relief decoration

Overall: 11.9 x 31.1 x 1.9 cm (4 11/16 x 12 1/4 x 3/4 in.)

Weight: 0.7kg

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.135

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Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.

Description

Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife. Four earthenware panels were made in molds and then joined together to make a miniature model of a stove. Opposite one another on the two long sides of the stove are representations of the eastern dragon and western tiger, here fended off by a lancer.

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