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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePanel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger (陶炉上的力士搏虎浮雕), 100–1 BCE. China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Earthenware with impressed relief decoration; overall: 11.9 x 31.1 x 1.9 cm (4 11/16 x 12 1/4 x 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1925.135
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