Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger

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. 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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