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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.
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107374
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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger
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107374
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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger
description
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.
date
100–1 BCE
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79895231
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Ceramic
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Overall: 11.9 x 31.1 x 1.9 cm (4 11/16 x 12 1/4 x 3/4 in.)
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China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)
accession
1925.135
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earthenware with impressed relief decoration
tombstone
Panel 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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陶炉上的力士搏虎浮雕
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China - Han Dynasty
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Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.
citations
citation
Whiting, Frederic Allen. “The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 15, no. 2, 1928, pp. 43–50.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 48; Mentioned: p. 50
url
ww.jstor.org/stable/25137106
citation
Janse, Olov and C.T. Loo. <em>Briques et objets céramiques funéraires de l'époque des Han</em>. Paris: Les Éditions d'art et d'histoire, 1936.
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Reproduced: Plate XXVI
citation
Stites, Raymond S. <em>The Arts and Man</em>. New York: Whittlesey House, 1940.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 514, fig. 430
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Cox, Warren E. <em>The Book of Pottery and Porcelain</em>. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944.
page_number
Reproduced: vol. I, pl. 19
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Trubner, Henry. <em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1952.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 42:7
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Myers, Bernard S. <em>Art and Civilization</em>. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.
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fig. 157
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 811
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 248
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Myers, Bernard S. <em>Art and Civilization</em>. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967.
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fig. 158
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 248
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 329
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Wilson, J. Keith. “Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 77, no. 8, 1990, pp. 286–323.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 301, cat. no. 25, fig. 19
creditline
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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2026-05-29 05:46:25.498000
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107374
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Chinese Art
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China - Han Dynasty
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earthenware with impressed relief decoration
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