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Striding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to a tomb. The doorway preserves in stone the post-and-lintel structure, a basic element of Chinese wooden architecture. <br><br>By the first century CE, a revolution in Chinese tomb construction and furnishing had taken place. Tombs lined with decorated bricks and tiles replace the earlier tombs constructed with only rammed-earth walls. Ceramic surrogates or models of stoves, houses, servants, and pets filled these more durable chambers, symbolically extending the creature comforts of this world into the world after death.
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95145
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Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway
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95145
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Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway
description
Striding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to a tomb. The doorway preserves in stone the post-and-lintel structure, a basic element of Chinese wooden architecture. <br><br>By the first century CE, a revolution in Chinese tomb construction and furnishing had taken place. Tombs lined with decorated bricks and tiles replace the earlier tombs constructed with only rammed-earth walls. Ceramic surrogates or models of stoves, houses, servants, and pets filled these more durable chambers, symbolically extending the creature comforts of this world into the world after death.
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100–200 CE
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79476218
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Ceramic
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Overall: 112.4 x 19 cm (44 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
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China, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)
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1915.66
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earthenware, die-stamped relief
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Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 100–200 CE. China, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE). Earthenware, die-stamped relief; overall: 112.4 x 19 cm (44 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, 1915.66
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China - Han Dynasty
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
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2026-05-29 05:05:19.354000
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95145
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Chinese Art
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China - Han Dynasty
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earthenware, die-stamped relief
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