Captured from a digital file. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Funerary Model in the Form of a Farmhouse

Artist Unknown

CultureChinese | Eastern Han dynasty

Date1st - 3rd century A.D.

MediumLead glaze ware | Ceramic

DimensionsOverall: 10 x 9 x 10 in. (25.4 x 22.9 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum Memorial Fund

Object number50.25.1

Collections

Asian Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 106

DescriptionFarmhouse is of slab construction, has open door, fenced front porch. One rail post flattened. Door has incised and punched decoration around it, incised stick trees flank it. Incised tree each side of house. Roof detachable, of typical rib construction with two projections each end, two each side. Striations denote tiles. Some green glaze remaining around door and on sides.

Published ReferencesVIRGINIAN-PILOT, 7/24/59, "Piece of the Week"; Museum Bulletin, October 1959; Laufer, B., _Pottery of the Han Dynasty_, 1st printing 1909, Plate 7, p. 42 (similar piece).