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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

陶炉上的力士搏虎浮雕

100–1 BCE
(206 BCE–8 CE)
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
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. 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.
Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

100–1 BCE

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

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