Cleveland Museum of Art
Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon
- Date
- 100–1 BCE
- Medium
- earthenware with impressed relief decoration
- Culture
- China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife. This panel with a dragon was part of a miniature pottery stove to be placed in a burial chamber. This scene of a dragon being fed fungus by a winged fairy is molded on the panel. The dragon is an auspicious creature and an animal of the cardinal directions that protects the east.
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