Frieze Fragment with Chariot Procession
Unknown Artist
100s CE
Medium
stone carved in low relief with engraved detail
Dimensions
48.3 × 166.4 × 13.3 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Accession Number
1985.73
About this artwork
The frieze shows a procession of horse-drawn chariots passing through terrain animated with wild animals and a monkey climbing a tree. The border of swirling clouds above conveys associations with heaven or the remote land of immortals in the high mountains. Comparable in style with the stone reliefs of the Wu Family shrines, this stone may have been originally carved for a local Eastern Han dynasty family tomb of similar status. To take a rubbing of the frieze, a moistened sheet of paper is lai...