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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Vermilion Bird

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Phoenix

100–1 BC

China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shanxi province, Western Han dynasty

(202 BC-AD 9)

Earthenware with impressed relief decoration

Overall: 11.5 x 18.4 x 1.6 cm (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 5/8 in.)

Weight: 0.42

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.136

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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, which was placed in a burial chamber. The stove's four sides show the animals of the cardinal directions. The vermilion phoenix-bird faces south.

Provenance

?-1925

(C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880-1957], Paris and New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1925-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Whiting, Frederic Allen. “The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 15, no. 2, 1928, pp. 43–50. Reproduced: p. 48; Mentioned: p. 50 ww.jstor.org

Janse, Olov and C.T. Loo. Briques et objets céramiques funéraires de l'époque des Han. Paris: Les Éditions d'art et d'histoire, 1936. Reproduced: Plate XXVI

Trubner, Henry. Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1952. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 42:6

Wilson, J. Keith. “Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 77, no. 8, 1990, pp. 286–323. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 301, cat. no. 25, fig. 19 www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

Mary Warden and Charles W. Harkness Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 1-29, 1928).

Chinese Ceramics. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990).

From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-November 14, 2021).

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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Phoenix

China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shanxi province, Western Han dynasty

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