2003.46.A-C: Funerary Model of a Defensive Watch Tower Set in a Basin Representing a Moat
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.46.A-C
- Title
- Funerary Model of a Defensive Watch Tower Set in a Basin Representing a Moat
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- funerary sculpture
- Date
- 2nd century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/78261
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Molded brick-red earthenware with emerald green, lead-fluxed glaze
- Dimensions
- 77 x 25.5 x 37 cm (30 5/16 x 10 1/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Simone Schloss, Pelham, NY
Lillian Schloss, New York
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Simone Schloss
- Accession Year
- 2003
- Object Number
- 2003.46.A-C
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Candace J. Lewis, Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1990), pp. 62-63, cat. no. 21, repr.
Verification Level
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