Funerary Model of a Defensive Watch Tower Set in a Basin Representing a Moat

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2003.46.A-C
Title: Funerary Model of a Defensive Watch Tower Set in a Basin Representing a Moat
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: funerary sculpture
Date: 2nd century
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/78261

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Molded brick-red earthenware with emerald green, lead-fluxed glaze
Dimensions: 77 x 25.5 x 37 cm (30 5/16 x 10 1/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Simone Schloss, Pelham, NY
Lillian Schloss, New York

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Simone Schloss
Accession Year: 2003
Object Number: 2003.46.A-C
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Candace J. Lewis, Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1990), pp. 62-63, cat. no. 21, repr.

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