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Collection Online as of December 7, 2023

Relief with Tiger from a Funerary Stove Model

陶炉上的 虎紋

202 BC-AD 220

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

(202 BCE–220 CE)

Earthenware with relief decoration

Overall: 10.2 x 27.4 x 1.5 cm (4 x 10 13/16 x 9/16 in.)

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.140

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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

Description

This pottery panel and 1925.137 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 protecting the west.

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
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. 42:3
Exhibition history

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).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1925.140