2006.170.203: Funerary Model of a Granary
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.203
- Title
- Funerary Model of a Granary
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 西漢 色釉陶倉
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1st century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317263
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with green lead glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 26 x Diam. 17.9 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- David Hill, USA (by 1996) sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1996-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.203
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Ceramic model of a cylindrical granary with angled, tiled roof and with three short legs, each in the form of a crouching bear; red earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze over molded decoration.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Yellow-green lead-glazed covered granary model of closely related form excavated in 2004 from a late Western Han brick tomb near in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 10 (2012): 97, pl. 4.
(2) Green lead-glazed granary model of very similar form excavated in 1956 from a late Western Han dynasty brick tomb near Hansenzhai village, Xi’an, Shaanxi province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (1960): 72, pl. 3.
(3) Yellow lead-glazed covered granary model with tiled roof and three bear-shaped legs excavated in 2004 from a late Western Han dynasty brick tomb near in Yuejiazhai village near Xi’an, Shaanxi province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (2006): 32, fig. 56.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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