Stove

Physical Description:

H: 7.9 cm., L: 25.4 cm.

Date Depicted:

25-220 A.D.

Materials:

Earthenware with green glaze

Notes:

In one early Western Han tomb, no. 168 at Fenghuangshan, Jinan, Hubei, the stove was found with the original kindling and two pottery cooking pots.

Abstract:

This stove is distinguished by the use of red earthenware clay body and green lead glaze, new materials which became popular in the Eastern Han period. The most interesting aspect of this stove is the assortment of motifs which decorate the surface, a ram's head above the door for loading fuel, two fish, bottles, a brush, a shell, snails, and hooks for holding pots. The fish and the snails,are common foods; the fish are also general symbols of prosperity; the brush and the pot hooks are commonly used utensils for cooking. The ram's head may represent a foodstuff or a symbol, the exact meaning lost with the ages.

Topics:

Ceramics -- China -- Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE -- (YVRC)

Culture:

Chinese
Eastern (Later) Han dynasty, 25-220

Accession Number:

4539-001

Genre:

ceramics (objects) (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Tools, Equipment & Instruments

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Source Creator:

Lewis, Candace J

Source Title:

Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection

Source Created:

Poughkeepsie, NY
Vassar College Art Gallery
ca. 1990

Source Note:

Borrow Direct Office: Harvard University, Widener Library

Call Number:

FA4714.301.3 Harvard Depository

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Original Repository:

Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Museum

OID:

10732817

PID:

digcoll:1827206