Today is take your dog to work day – and though we can’t bringlive dogs into the museum – we can enj
Today is take your dog to work day – and though we can’t bringlive dogs into the museum – we can enjoy some of those we have right here inour collection. Our curator of Asian Art, Joan Cummins, suggests this RecumbentDog in particular really suggests the “take your dog along” message quite literallybecause it would have joined its owner in their tomb to provide companionshipand guidance in the afterlife. The dog was one of the first animals in China to be domesticatedand would have functioned as a guard, a hunting animal and a symbol offidelity. Canine remains have been found at the feet of the deceased in severalNeolithic burial mounds and Shang tombs (circa 1600–1045 B.C.). Earthenwarerepresentations of dogs exist from as early as the Neolithic period, but dategenerally from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) to the Tang dynasty (A.D.618–907) as mingqi, or funerary ware.Posted by Jessica Palmieri -- source link
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