Art Institute of Chicago
Model of a Two-Story Structure
China
- Date
- Eastern Han dynasty, 25–220 CE
- Medium
- Brick-red earthenware with green lead glaze
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Burial models attest to the prevalence of multistoried buildings in early imperial China. This two-story structure, simply constructed of clay slabs, has a tile roof and an openwork balcony supported by brackets. Such realistic details are modified by imaginative "squatting-bear" feet. This model may depict a granary, or it may have been assembled with other clay structures to form a residential compound.
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