Minneapolis Institute of Art
Funerary Model of a Pig Sty
China
- Date
- 2nd century BCE
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Han gentry lived in relative luxury and hoped to live equally well in the afterlife. They commissioned clay models of their mansions, granaries, mills and, in this case, even a pig sty. Housing a sow, suckling pigs, boar, roosting chickens and dog, the pen is connected to two latrines. Tiles line the tops of the walls and cover the hip roofs. Combination pig sty-latrines similar to this replica can be seen in many parts of rural China today. Asia
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