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Relief with Rampant Tiger and Boar from a Funerary Stove Model
202 BCE–220 CE
(202 BCE–220 CE)
Overall: 10.1 x 22 x 1.7 cm (4 x 8 11/16 x 11/16 in.)
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.137
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.Description
This pottery panel and 1925.140 were made in molds to be joined with other panels to build a miniature stove. The panels, however, are not complete and presumably do not belong together. This panel depicts a tiger attacking a boar.- ?-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
- 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. Mentioned: p. 50 www.jstor.orgTrubner, 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. 42:4
- 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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