Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Lancer Jousting with a Tiger
Unknown Artist
100–1 BCE
Medium
earthenware with impressed relief decoration
Dimensions
11.9 × 31.1 × 1.9 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
Accession Number
1925.135
About this artwork
Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife. Four earthenware panels were made in molds and then joined together to make a miniature model of a stove. Opposite one another on the two long sides of the stove are representations of the eastern dragon and western tiger, here fended off by a lancer.