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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger
100-1 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger
- Date Created: 100-1 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 11.9 x 31.1 x 1.9 cm (4 11/16 x 12 1/4 x 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880-1957], Paris and New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.135
- Medium: earthenware with impressed relief decoration
- Original Title: 陶炉上的力士搏虎浮雕
- Fun Fact: Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shanxi province, Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9)
- Credit Line: Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Collection: China - Han Dynasty
- Accession Number: 1925.135
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