Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon
100–1 BC
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dragon, 100–1 BC. China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shanxi province, Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9). Earthenware with impressed relief decoration; 11.5 x 30.8 x 1.3 cm (4 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.134 Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware with impressed relief decoration
- Medium
- earthenware, impressed, relief, decoration
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 30.8 x 1.3 cm (4 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1925.134
- Credit Line
- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Exhibitions
- Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts, Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia, From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (Chinese art rotation), <em>Mary Warden and Charles W. Harkness Memorial Exhibition</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 1-29, 1928)., <em>Chinese Ceramics</em>. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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